Annotation:Paddy’s the Boy
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PADDY'S THE BOY. AKA and see “Coppers and Brass (2),” “Hartigan's Fancy,” “Humors of Ennistymon (1) (The).” Irish, Jig. G Mixolydian. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. "The Irishman's Shanty" (1859)
A Favorite Comic Song With Imitations.
As ]Sung by Matt Peel.
Words and Music by Henry Tucker (1826-1882)
Albany: E. Hobart & Co.
Engd. by Greene & Walker Boston;
Pearson, Eng'r.
[Source: 050/045@Levy]
[NOTE: text delimited by [] is spoken.]
1. Did you ever go in to an Irishman’s shanty?
Ah! there boys you’ll find the whiskey so plenty
With a pipe in his mouth there sits Paddy so free.
No King in his palace is prouder than he.
Hurrah! my honey,
[Now then boys, one for Paddy!]
Whack! Paddy’s the boy.
[CHORUS sung after each VERSE]
Ah! Ah! Ah!
Ah! Ah!
2. There’s a three legged stool and a table to match,
And the door to the shanty is locked with a latch;
There’s a nice feather mattress all bursting with straw,
For the want of a Bedstool, it lies on the floor.
Hurrah! my honey.
[Now then boys, one for the mattress.]
Whack! Paddy’s the boy.
Source for notated version:
Printed sources: Cole (1000 Fiddle Tunes), 1940; p. 54. Ryan’s Mammoth Collection, 1883; p. 82.
Recorded sources:
See also listing at:
Alan Snyder's Cape Breton Fiddle Recordings Index [1]