Paul and His Chickens

DESCRIPTION: "Paul let his chickens run down from the hillside"; he realizes from their actions that Reyard (the fox) is out. The fox has taken a chicken before Paul chases it off. Ashamed, he grinds some corn to earn enough that he can go home to his mother
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1923 (Rickaby collection, according to Rickaby/Dykstra/Leary-PineryBoys-SongsSongcatchingInLumberjackEra)
KEYWORDS: foreignlanguage animal chickens death work money mother
FOUND IN: US(MW)
REFERENCES (3 citations):
Rickaby/Dykstra/Leary-PineryBoys-SongsSongcatchingInLumberjackEra 64, "Paul and His Chickens" (1 text)
Sanders-SingHighSingLow, pp. 40-41, "Paul and the Chickens" (1 text, 1 tune)
ChansonsDeNotreChalet, p. 32, "Pål sine høner - Paul's Chickens" (2 texts, 1 English, 1 Norwegian; 1 tune)
NOTES [74 words]: According to the notes in Rickaby/Dykstra/Leary-PineryBoys-SongsSongcatchingInLumberjackEra, this is a translation of the Norwegian folk song "Pal pa Haugen," "Paul on the Hill." Based on ChansonsDeNotreChalet, this song was also known s "Pål sine høner." Leary says the Norwegian version was "widely sung," but I have no idea if it was truly traditional.
Sanders-SingHighSingLow, says that, while the song is Norwegian, the game is Danish. - RBW
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