The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #96122   Message #4098860
Posted By: Tattie Bogle
23-Mar-21 - 09:01 AM
Thread Name: Origins: Tramps and Hawkers
Subject: RE: Origins: Tramps and Hawkers
Just recently re-discovered one of my old LPs of the McPeake Family, on which there is a lovely instrumental track led by a Uilleann piper called “The Winding Banks of Erne”: thought the tune sounded familiar, and yes, the sleeve notes say it is otherwise known as “Tramps and Hawkers”.
The notes also mention that the tune was used for another song called “The Smashing of the Van”, “commemorating a blow struck by 4 Irish freedom fighters in Manchester in 1860. The original Gaelic song from which they are all descended is An Col Druimin Og - the slender-backed girl - if you translate it not too literally.”