Subject: Wedding of Lottie McGrath From: Wolfgang Date: 24 Nov 00 - 10:12 AM I'd be grateful for the lyrics to this (Irish American?) song. Wolfgang |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Wedding of Lottie McGrath From: bill\sables Date: 24 Nov 00 - 11:38 AM I remember my father singing this song when I was a kid and I think the tune he used was Irish Washerwoman but I'm buggered if I can remember any of the words. Bill |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Wedding of Lottie McGrath From: Wolfgang Date: 24 Nov 00 - 11:48 AM Bill, I just listened to Irish Washerwoman in the DT and I think your recollection is correct. Wolfgang |
Subject: Lyr Add: THE WEDDIN' OF LOTTIE MCGRATH From: Frank Maher Date: 24 Nov 00 - 04:00 PM Oh! 'Tis of a few verses I'm now goin' to prattle, The night I got into a terrible battle, As sure as me life it was me on me mettle, The night of the weddin' of Lottie McGrath.
Arra be gor! 'Twas a terrible tear.
Well, the first to come in was auld Mrs. Russell.
The last to come in was auld Jim McGinty. |
Subject: Lyr Add: WEDDING OF LOTTIE MCGRATH From: fulurum Date: 24 Nov 00 - 04:23 PM WEDDING OF LOTTIE MCGRATH
Oh, it's of a few verses I'm now going to prattle
Araby gourt (?) was a terrible tear
Well the first to come in was old Mrs. Russell
The last to come in was old Jim McGinty Araby gourt was a terrible tear....
From Moloney, O'Connell & Kane, Kilkelly album. Liner notes state "a variation on the Irish washerwoman" |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Wedding of Lottie McGrath From: bill\sables Date: 24 Nov 00 - 08:07 PM That brings back memories of when my father used to sing it especially the verses about Old Mrs Russell and Jim Mc Guinty. I had quite forgotten them. Thanks Frank and Fulurum. Bill |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Wedding of Lottie McGrath From: McGrath of Harlow Date: 24 Nov 00 - 09:37 PM "Araby gourt" - that's a great spelling!
Another song about us, to go with Master McGrath and Mrs McGrath and Eileen Oge (in which "McGrath the cattle jobber" walks away with the little madam). I hadn't met Lottie till now. |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Wedding of Lottie McGrath From: GUEST,MartinRyan Date: 25 Nov 00 - 07:11 PM Its usually "Locky McGrath", I think. I'll get back with details later. Can't say I recognise Irish Washerwoman in the tune, mind you. Regards |
Subject: Lyr Add: THE WEDDIN' O' LAUCHIE M'GRAW (H Lauder) From: Bob Bolton Date: 26 Nov 00 - 08:11 AM G'day Wolfgang, June last year, I published a version of this, collected from the late Joe Yates of the NSW village of Sofala. Subsequently, I was given the original Harry Lauder words and I supply these here. The tune collectd here was a variant of the tune that has been intriguing Marcus Campobellorum - possibly the Scottish song Musselburgh Fair ... but definitely Sam Larner's Dogger Bank, the American Cruise of the Bigler and several Australian Songs including Lachlan Tigers, Great Northern Line &c. I can supply a MIDIText of the Australian collected tune ... but not tonight, it has turned midnight and I will turn into a pumpkin (well, vegetate and not get up for work Monday ... ) if I don't quit now! Regards, Bob Bolton
THE WEDDIN' O' LAUCHIE M'GRAW
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Wedding of Lottie McGrath From: Malcolm Douglas Date: 26 Nov 00 - 11:29 AM Harry Lauder may be heard singing "The Weddin' O' Lauchie McGraw" at Cylinder Record Hobby Page here: Harry Lauder Audio Files -taken from a wax cylinder, so rather rough. There is an extract from a much better recording at Scottish Songs by Sir Harry Lauder Malcolm |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Wedding of Lottie McGrath From: Bob Bolton Date: 26 Nov 00 - 09:26 PM G'day (as opposed to last midnight) again, I see that I shouldn't try to write accurate html late at night! (I obviously mucked up the cancel italics coding after Dogger Bank. Oh well, I will post these words, plus the collected Australian tune, into a separate Add Lyr/Tune thread tonight (~ ... ?). I presume the adoption of Irish Washerwoman happened when the Irish picked up what appears to be a Harry Lauder original. What I need to know is how close the Australian version resemle Harry Lauder's ... so I need to follow some of those Blue Clicky Things that Malcolm has so kindly provided. Regards, Bob Bolton |
Subject: Lyr/Tune Add: THE WEDDIN' O' LAUCHIE M'GRAW From: Bob Bolton Date: 27 Nov 00 - 07:10 AM G'day, Wolfgang asked for this and I had best put it into a Lyr Add thread.
THE WEDDIN' O' LAUCHIE M'GRAW Listening to Harry Lauder's original tune, as linke din Wolfgang's original thread, it seems that Joe Yate's tune is basically Harry Lauder's - spruced up as a jig tune for dancing. Regards,
Bob Bolton Here is the tune Joe Yates played:
Click to playTo play or display ABC tunes, try concertina.netABC format: X:1
Regards, Bob Bolton I moved this message here from another thread on the same topic. |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Wedding of Lottie McGrath From: Wolfgang Date: 27 Nov 00 - 10:06 AM Many, many thanks to all those who have helped. Even more than I asked for, but every bit was welcome. Wolfgang |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Wedding of Lottie McGrath From: GUEST,Martin Ryan Date: 27 Nov 00 - 12:16 PM Great! I would never have guessed at a Harry Lauder connection. Rewards |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Wedding of Lottie McGrath From: Bob Bolton Date: 27 Nov 00 - 09:29 PM G'day again, I have posted the words (again) and the Australian collected tune from Joe Yates in an new thread Lyr Add: The Wedding of Lachlan McGraw. I'm not at all sure why I slipped into the formal Lachlan spelling ...!?! anyway, the words and a MIDItext of thetune are there. The tune sounds pretty close to Harry Lauder's original and It actually resembles the tune used by A.L. Lloyd for another Australian song Bluey Brink (but not the better known, authentic Australian, tunes for that song). Regards, Bob Bolton |
Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Wedding of Lachlan McGraw - Aust. tu From: Wolfgang Date: 28 Nov 00 - 04:02 AM Thanks again, Bob, I found it at both places. Wolfgang |
Subject: Lyr Add: THE WEDDING OF LARRY MCGRATH From: GUEST,Andrew McMenamin Date: 04 Nov 04 - 07:16 AM The version I heard, from my father, who heard if from his grandfather in Donegal, Ireland goes like this: THE WEDDING OF LARRY MCGRATH Chorus Dammit, it was a terrible tear Me and herself and her mother were there I may get mixed up in the wheels of a train If ever I go to a wedding again The first one to sing was a Mickey O'Hara Who gave us a verse of the tar-a-rar-rara Poor Mickey's remains were wheeled home in a barra (wheelbarrow) The night of the wedding of Larry McGrath Chorus The next one to sing was an ould Jenny Russel And she couln't sing so she started to whustle (whistle) Then somebody hit her a kick in the bustle The night of the wedding of Larry McGrath Chorus All of a sudden big Seamus McGinty With several bakers he kicked up a shindy He lifted the poker and killed about twenty The night of the wedding of Larry McGrath Chorus I never heard any other verses, but that doesn't mean that my great-grandfather never sang them. I might swipe a few from the postings here. |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Wedding of Lottie McGrath/Lachlan McGraw From: akenaton Date: 04 Nov 04 - 08:24 PM My Uncle used to sing this at local concerts 1950s It was always Lachie Mcgraw... Lachie being short for Lachlan. As I live in Strathlachlan, home of Ewan Maclachlan,Castle Lachlan,Strathlachlan,who is chief of the Clan Maclachlan, Im a bit of an expert |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Wedding of Lottie McGrath/Lachlan McG From: GUEST Date: 28 Jun 05 - 07:01 PM Last verse: She opened her gifts and her eyes became misty for there in her lap was a whole case of whiskey she drank it all down in an hour and fifty the night of the weddin of Lotty Mcgrath She broke all the glasses and danced on the table stripped off all her cloths and mooned old Mrs. Mable Climbed on the roof and then jumped off the gable the night of the wedding of Lotty McGrath |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Wedding of Lottie McGrath/Lachlan McG From: GUEST,Martin Ryan Date: 28 Jun 05 - 07:03 PM gifts? Regards |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Wedding of Lottie McGrath/Lachlan McGraw From: GUEST,leeneia Date: 12 Sep 12 - 03:09 PM I'm not interested in this song as such, but I'd like to mention that in Ireland, the name McGrath is pronounced McGrah. Apparently over time that pronunciation led to the spelling 'McGraw' in other lands. So whether the couple are called McGrath or McGraw, they have the same name. |
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