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'''PADDY HEAGERTY'S LEATHER BREECHES.''' Irish, Song Air (6/8 time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. | '''PADDY HEAGERTY'S LEATHER BREECHES.''' AKA "[[Old Leather Breeches]]." Irish, Song Air (6/8 time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. A 19th century comic Irish song. The first stanza goes: | ||
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<br> | ''It was at the sign of the Bell, on the road to Clonmel,''<br> | ||
''Paddy Hegarty kept a neat shebeen;''<br> | |||
''He sold pig's meat and bread, kept a good lodgin' bed,''<br> | |||
''And so well liked round the country had been;''<br> | |||
''Himself and his wife both struggled thro' life.''<br> | |||
''In the week days Pat mended the ditches,''<br> | |||
''But on Sunday he dressed in a coat of the best.''<br> | |||
''But his pride was his old leather breeches.''<br> | |||
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PADDY HEAGERTY'S LEATHER BREECHES. AKA "Old Leather Breeches." Irish, Song Air (6/8 time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. A 19th century comic Irish song. The first stanza goes:
It was at the sign of the Bell, on the road to Clonmel,
Paddy Hegarty kept a neat shebeen;
He sold pig's meat and bread, kept a good lodgin' bed,
And so well liked round the country had been;
Himself and his wife both struggled thro' life.
In the week days Pat mended the ditches,
But on Sunday he dressed in a coat of the best.
But his pride was his old leather breeches.
Source for notated version: The mid-19th century music manuscript collection of uilleann piper and Church of Ireland cleric James Goodman [Shields].
Printed sources: Shields (Tunes of the Munster Pipers), 1998; No. 181, p. 75.
Recorded sources:
See also listing at:
Hear a field recording of the song from the pub singing of John Cranny at ITMA [1]