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Thread #106695   Message #2206340
Posted By: Mick Pearce (MCP)
01-Dec-07 - 12:58 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: The Daysman (from Eddie Butcher)
Subject: RE: words to Eddie Butcher song
OK - Here it is. If this is not what you want, but one of the songs, post the starting line and I'll get you the rest.

The conversation is between Hugh Shields (HS) and Eddie Butcher (EB) (with a fragment from Ursula(U) at the end):


Spoken
HS:
There's a bit in that song about her brother going to put turf in winnin' rows I think... Would you tell me what those are?

EB:
Footin's. Putting them up in footin's... Whenever you cut turf you see they're wheeled oot and laid in the barrows and then you go up and you spread them all roon' wi' your hands on the ground flat. And you go back up again and you set them up on their end then in rows: winnin' rows, footin's.

HS:
Yes... Does that meanthat those rows are for 'winnin'' the turf, or is it the wind that comes into it?

EB:
It's these - the wind - putting them in winnin' rows, when you put them up in these rows, the wind blows through.

HS:
The wind blows through: so it's to let the wind through.

EB:
Let the wind blow through them to dry them.

Recorded, July 1969, in E.'s house.

EB:
A creel of peats, a creel of clods, a creel of wee black peat clods. Can you say that?

U:
A creel of peats, a wee - a creel o' wee black peat bogs.

Recorded, July 1969, at Glack, co. Derry. Ursula is the sister-in-law of E.'s son John (then aged 10).



Hope this is what you want.
Mick