Uploaded August 2023 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Another poem written by Kathleen Faragher and published in 1954 in her booklet entitled "Green Hills by the Sea", set to music by me in 2023.
This is a delightful little story with a sad, but heroic ending.
Priddhas is the Manx word for Potatoes.
Another poem written by Kathleen Faragher and published in 1954 in her booklet entitled "Green Hills by the Sea", set to music by me in 2023.
This is a delightful little story with a sad, but heroic ending.
Priddhas is the Manx word for Potatoes.










![Guitar: Some Folks Do (Including lyrics and chords)
In Joe Offers collection, this song had only the following footnotes:
Source: Singing Together, Autumn 1974, BBC Publications
Notes:
None supplied in the pamphlet.
However, in a discussion on the song the following was added:
According to Steven Saunders and Deane L. Root, The Music of Stephen C. Foster: A Critical Edition (Smithsonian Institution Press, 1990, vol. 1, p. 491), this edition (at the Levy Collection) is the earliest known copy.
Title: Fosters Melodies No.29. Some Folks.
Composer, Lyricist, Arranger: Composed by S[tephen] C[ollins] Foster
Publication: New York: Firth, Pond & Co., 1 Franklin Square, 1855.
Form of Composition: strophic with chorus (and instrumental interlude)
Instrumentation: piano and voice
First Line: Some folks like to sigh, Some folks do, some folks do
First Line of Chorus: Long live the Merry merry heart that laughs by night and day
Engraver, Lithographer, Artist: Wakelam & Bro.
I have chosen to sing the chorus after each verse, though in Fosters original it was only sung after the first verse, then after the 3rd and 5th verses. Guitar: Some Folks Do (Including lyrics and chords)](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/w9fkLj8jyI0/mqdefault.jpg)