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| '''BOB AND JOAN'''. See "[[Boban John]]," "[[Bobbing Joan]]," "[[Bobbing Joe]]," "[[Hey for Stoney Batter]]," "[[Fill the Bumper Fair]]," "[[Love and Whiskey]]," "[[Stoneybatter (1)]]." Irish, Air or March (9/8). G Major (Colclough): D Major (Kennedy). Standard tuning (fiddle). AB (Roche): AABB (Breathnach): AABB' (Kennedy). A variant of the Scottish tune "Boban John" here given in a different time signature, although based on a triple hornpipe (3/2 time) theme that goes by various titles. The air was used in the opera '''The Wife of Two Husbands''' for the song "[[Love and Whiskey]]," to which Thomas Moore later wrote "[[Fill the Bumper Fair]]." Breathnach (1963) gives these words:
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| ''Hi for Bob and Joan,''<br>
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| ''Hi for Stoneybatter;''<br>
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| ''Leave your wife at home''<br>
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| ''Or surely I'll be at her.''
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| Crofton Croker mentions "Bob and Joan" in conjunction with James Gandsey (1769-1857), the famous Kerry piper (as reported by Brendan Breathnach in '''The Man and His Music''' {1997}). Gandsey, who was nearly blind from smallpox contracted as an infant, nevertheless was an incomparable talent of his time on his instrument, whose talents also included telling a good story, singing a good song and holding his own at capping Latin verses (a skill learned as a youth in a hedge school) with any educated person in the county. Croker describes several musical encounters with Gandsey at Gorham's Hibernian Hotel, at one of which a request was made of the piper for a lively song. "Come boy, scrape away," said Gandsey to his son, a fiddler, and responded by singing "Bob and Joan," to which he had set his own words:
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| ''To Killarney we will go,''<br>
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| ''And see fair nature's beauties,''<br>
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| ''The mountain topped with snow,''<br>
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| ''And covered with arbutus.''<br>
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| ''Oh! Then, to hear at night,''<br>
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| ''At Gorham's, how entrancing,''<br>
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| ''Old Gandsey play his pipes,''<br>
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| ''Which steps the maids a dancing!''<br>
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| ''Tow, row, row, row, row etc.''
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| See also Robert Bremner's related "[[Miss Murray’s Reel (2)]]."
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| ''Source for notated version'': piper Seán Potts (Ireland) [Breathnach].
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| ''Printed sources:'' Breathnach (CRÉ I), 1963; No. 63, p. 27. Colclough ('''Tutor for the Irish Union Pipes'''), c. 1830; p. 17. Johnson ('''A Further Collection of Dances, Marches, Minuetts and Duetts of the Latter 18th Century'''), 1998; p. 3. Kennedy ('''Fiddler's Tune Book: Slip Jigs and Waltzes'''), 1999; p. 4, No. 6. '''Roche Collection''', vol. II, 1982; No. 343, p. 61.
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| '''© 1996-2010 Andrew Kuntz. All Rights Reserved.'''
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| Engraver Valerio M. Pelliccioni
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