| For He's a Jolly Good Fellow |
| Composer |
Traditional |
| Released |
1???-??-?? |
| Title Origin |
Official |
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For He's a Jolly Good Fellow is a congratulatory song.
Title
The song resembles Malbrough s'en va-t-en guerre, but is still different enough to warrant a title of its own.
Composition
People often sing with a fermata on the third fellow.
Games
The Amazing Adventures of Mr. F. Lea (ARC)
Plays in E.
BMX Stunts (C64)
The American melody was arranged for two square waves tuned at 424 Hz, sounding closer to B.
It sounds the same on every SID chip and is track 10 in the rip.
Jack and the Beanstalk (C64)
The British melody was arranged for two sawtooth waves tuned at 424 Hz, sounding closer to C.
It sounds the same on every SID chip and is track 11 in the rip.
Giants Revenge (C64)
Same as Jack and the Beanstalk (C64).
Alf the First Adventure (C64)
After you put the key to the garage, a different picture for the current level loads, and if you left sound effects on, a single triangle wave hums the American melody in G.
Most keyboard and joystick controls will slightly slow down or stop the music.
For recording, the picture was watched without touching anything. It sounds otherwise the same on every SID chip and is track 4 in the rip.
Circus Games (C64)
The British melody is tuned at 424 Hz, sounding closer to E. Only the second occurrence has a fermata.
The bass sounds different on every machine because it uses the SID chip's unstable low-pass filter. It should be recorded:
- on a C64 PAL where the filter is noticeable and pleasant (and likely as intended).
- on a C64C PAL.
In the rip, it is track 2.
Oracle II (C64)
Originally, Pasch arranged the British melody for a groupmate's birthday on 1990-09-14. Later, it was published on Magic Disk 64 2/92 as MUSIC #04, part of a menu called FUNKY-MUSICS. Tufan Uysal regularly read that magazine and added Music #04 to the ending of his game Oracle II, published on Magic Disk 64 8/94.
The arrangement is tuned at 424 Hz and structured as follows:
- Intro: The melody plays in C with the only fermata. The chords go through the SID chip's unstable band-pass filter and are muted on most machines.
- Loop: The chords and bass drum now go through the low-pass filter and are audible everywhere, but with different "volumes" on most machines.
- Melody in C (twice)
- Melody in D (twice)
- Arpeggio in D (four times)
- Chords in C♯, doubled using Hard Sync (four times)
It should be recorded:
- on a C64 PAL where the filter is noticeable and pleasant (and likely as intended by Pasch).
- on a C64C PAL (likely as Uysal heard it).
Lyrics
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British
For he's a jolly good fellow,
for he's a jolly good fellow,
for he's a jolly good fellow,
and so say all of us.
And so say all of us,
and so say all of us!
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American
For he's a jolly good fellow,
for he's a jolly good fellow,
for he's a jolly good fellow,
which nobody can deny.
Which nobody can deny,
which nobody can deny!
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