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Performer: Booth, Jackie
Place Collected: Stroud
Date collected: 1979 (19 Nov)
Collector: Davies, Gwilym
Roud Number: 21942

This seems to be one of those songs that a lot of people know, but it is rarely reported by collectors, only one other version (from Suffolk) having been noted. It was published in “Tony Pastor’s Book of Six Hundred Comic Songs and Speeches” in New York in 1867 and purports to show the native cunning of the Irish. The song uses several well-known tunes including “In the Shade of the Old Apple Tree”.

Notes by Gwilym Davies

Media & Downloads

Hear the song/tune as collected (mp3 stream):

See the song/tune as collected (PDF file)
Hear the song/tune (midi file)
Version to sing (PDF file)
Hear a version to sing (midi file)
Song/tune as collected (abc file)
Version to sing (abc file)