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T:There’s a hole in my breeches!
M:6/8
L:1/8
R:Air
S:Henry Hudson manuscript collection c. 1841 (Dublin, No. 262)
N:Hudson was a Dublin dentist and an early collector. He was
N:music editor of The Citizen or Dublin Monthly Magazine from
N:1841-1843.
F: http://rarebooks.library.nd.edu/digital/bookreader/MSE_1434-2/#page/7/mode/1up
Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion
K:G
D/E/|GAB d>ed|Bde A2 (G/A/)|Bde d>BA|(G3 G2) (B/c/)|
dga bag|Bde d2 (g/f/)|.e.d.c .B.A.G|(E3 E2)||
(G/A/)|(Bd)e d(eg/a/)|(bag) d2 g/f/|edB (AGB/G/)|(E3 E2) D/E/|
(GAB) (ded)|(Bd).e A2 G/A/|Bde dBA|(G3 G2)||
COLLEEN I'M COURTING JUST NOW, THE. AKA and see "There's a hole in my coat," "There's a hole in my breeches." Irish, Air (6/8 time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. The air was entered into the 1841 music manuscript collection of Dublin dentist and collector Henry Hudson (1798-1889) under the title "There's a hole in my breeches", along with the following words:
There’s a hole in my breeches, I cannot tell how, And I haven’t a Wife for to mend it, So I hope that the Cailin I’m courting just now, By my breeches will not be offended. For my mother declares she will not sew no more, And my sister has married a sailor, Oh I never was bother’d so fairly before, For my credit is gone with the Taylor.
