Hey, Ho, Nobody Home (round)
The round as Thomas Ravenscroft printed it in 1609, for 2 to 4 singers: everyone sings the same short tune, entering a bar apart (tenor and bass an octave lower), and the harmony happens by itself. The words are the 1609 ones, "fill the pot, Eadie", in today's spelling.
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The first verse
Words: anonymous (printed 1609)Tune: anonymous, in Thomas Ravenscroft's Pammelia (1609)
Hey ho nobody at homemeat nor drink nor money have I nonefill the pot Eadie Hey ho nobody at homemeat nor drink nor money have I nonefill the pot Eadie Hey ho nobody at homemeat nor drink nor money have I nonefill the pot Eadie
About Hey, Ho, Nobody Home (round)
Hey, Ho, Nobody Home is a round printed in 1609 in Pammelia, the first English book of rounds and catches, compiled by Thomas Ravenscroft; nobody knows who wrote its words or its tune. There it is a round for five voices, and its words end "fill the pot, Eadie": a call to fill the drinking pot. The ending many people know today, "yet will I be merry", came later. Our round is read from a facsimile of the 1609 page, with its words in today's spelling, written in F minor, a minor third above the print. Here it is for 2 to 4 singers: everyone sings the same short tune three times, entering a bar apart, with the tenor and bass pitched an octave lower for lower voices, and the harmony happens by itself.
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