G'day Phillipa,This is the song Killaloo (Various spellings ... I've tended to use Killaloe because that is how Sally Sloane spelled it). The original music hall song is well documented, but what happens after that is the folk process.
This version is as remembered by Joe Cashmere, in Australia, around 1954/5.
KILLALOO
As collected from Joe Cashmere by John Meredith
Well I happened to be born at the time they cut the corn,
Quite contagious to the town of Killaloo,
Where to tache us they'd a schame and a French Mossoo he came
To instruct us in the game of "parlez vous".
I've a father, that I swear, but he said I had a "pere"
And he struck me when I said it wasn't true,
And the Irish for "a jint" and the French for "half a pint",
Faith, we learnt it in the school at Killaloo."Mais oui", Mossoo would cry; "Well of course you can" says I.
Non non, "I know", says I with some surprise.
When a boy straight up from Clare heard his mother called a "mere"
He gave Mossoo his fist between the eyes.
Says Mossoo in much alarm, "Go send for Johnny Darm".
Says I "There's no such name about the place"
Then "comment" was his reply, "Come on yourself" says I
And I scattered all the features of his face.Then nothing more was said, Mossoo went of to bed.
He mixed no more in Killaloo affairs;
While the papers on the place, said the foreign teacher's face
Had been closed for alterations and repairs.
Frinch may be very fine, it's no enemy of mine;
Our conduct to the teacher they did send.
I've told you what is passed, so this verse must be the last,
That's the reason I have left it to the end.The original song is an English Music Hall song, written in the 19th century by Robert Martin.
Australian uses of the tune (and song structure) include:
The Drover's Dream,
The Flash Stockman (a 'boasting song', in which an old stockman reckons he's still better than you!) and
The Woolloomooloo Lair.I've seen a note somewhere that it is also used for the ballad Jesse James!
The first tune I give is what I know from Sally Sloane (1894 - 1982), a lovely old player and singer. This is a very pretty version in schottische time and works well as a dance tune for schottiches and barn dances.
MIDI file: killaloe.mid
Timebase: 240
TimeSig: 4/4 24 8
Tempo: 120 (500000 microsec/crotchet)
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The second version is that collected from Joe Cashmere (1872 - 1959), who played it in jig time. His words have been lightly patched with the original sheet music version, where absolutely necessary, and the chorus, which he did not sing, has been omitted.
MIDI file: killaloo.mid
Timebase: 240
TimeSig: 6/8 36 8
Tempo: 180 (333333 microsec/crotchet)
Start
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Regards,
Bob Bolton