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''Will go through the world, my brave boys!''<br> | ''Will go through the world, my brave boys!''<br> | ||
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The tune was also entered into vol. 2 (p. 149) of the mid-19th century music manuscript collection of County Cork cleric and uilleann piper [[ | The tune was also entered into vol. 2 (p. 149)[http://goodman.itma.ie/volume-two#?c=0&m=0&s=0&cv=152&z=1062.252%2C2191.9495%2C6191.5237%2C2154.0638] of the mid-19th century music manuscript collection of County Cork cleric and uilleann piper [[wikipedia:James_Goodman_(musicologist)]]. | ||
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|f_printed_sources=Joyce ('''Old Irish Folk Muisc and Songs'''), 1909; No. 437, pp. 247 248. O’Farrell ('''Pocket Companion, vol. IV'''), c. 1810; p. 125. | |f_printed_sources=Joyce ('''Old Irish Folk Muisc and Songs'''), 1909; No. 437, pp. 247 248. O’Farrell ('''Pocket Companion, vol. IV'''), c. 1810; p. 125. | ||
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WHY SHOULD WE QUARREL FOR RICHES. English, Irish; Air (9/8 time). G Major/E Minor. Standard tuning (fiddle). ABB. O’Farrell (c. 1810) assigns an Irish provenance for this sailor’s song (Roud Broadside Index B139505), although a version appears earlier in Allan Ramsay’s (1684-1758) Tea-Table Miscellany (London, 1733). It proved popular and had longevity far into the next century, inspiring parodies and sequals; it was frequently anthologized. The first verse and chorus go:
How pleasant a sailor's life passes,
Who roams o'er the watery main!
No treasure he ever amasses,
But cheerfully spends all his gain.
We're strangers to party and faction,
To honour and honesty true;
And would not commit a bad action
For power or profit in view.
Chorus:
Then why should we quarrel for riches,
Or any such glittering toys;
A light heart, and a thin pair of breeches,
Will go through the world, my brave boys!
The tune was also entered into vol. 2 (p. 149)[1] of the mid-19th century music manuscript collection of County Cork cleric and uilleann piper wikipedia:James_Goodman_(musicologist).
