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Thread #11197   Message #82363
Posted By: Philippa
28-May-99 - 08:50 AM
Thread Name: Nonsense songs to dance tunes
Subject: RE: Nonsense songs to dance tunes
Soldier's Joy -I am my mother's darkling pet(3x)/I won't get married for a long while yet

I am my mother's darling boy(3x)/singing that Soldier's Joy

mrs McLeod's - Did you ever go to meeting uncle Joe, uncle Joe(3x)Don't mind the weather when the wind don't blow

Scots English lyrics [NOT translation] to Gaelic puirt a' beul "Brochan Lom": Oh the broon coo's gotten oot and eaten a' the corn(3x) What it eats the day, it cannae eat the morn

Oh, a-tower the bed, a-tower the bed, and up against the wa'
He couldna dae it, couldna dae it, couldna dae it at a'
He tried it on the sofae and the tried it on the chair
the only place that he could dae it was lying on flair

not so nonsensical:Old Zip Coon, Daniel O'Connell (making babies by steam, Rollicksome Boys of Tandragee, I am a Little Beggarman, a pioneer song to 'the Irish washerwoman', sample verse: Oh how happy I am when I crawl into bed and the rattlesnake rattles his tail round my head
and the dear little bedbug with tacks on his toes
Plays why don't you catch me wherever he goes

Oh hurrah for Lane County, the land of the free
the home of the bedbug, the louse and the flea
[?]Where the sun is so hot that if in it you remain
'twill burn you quite crisp on your government claim

and let me know if you want clickable links to some such songs in Gaelic...