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DT Correction: Pretty Peg (from The Bothy Band) DigiTrad: KEACH ON THE CREEL PRETTY PEG THE LITTLE SCOTCH GIRL THE RIDE IN THE CREEL (2) Related threads: Lyr Req: Pretty Peg (from The Bothy Band) (55) what do the words mean?Child Ballad 281(The Creel) (31) Lyr ADD: The Creel (Paul Brady) (25) Lyr Req: packie manus byrne's the creel #281 (3) Lyr Req: Pretty Peg (from Howling Gael) (12) |
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Subject: Lyric Req: "Pretty Peg" (Bothy Band) From: mstrbill@mnsinc.com Date: 19 Mar 97 - 03:42 PM Searching for the lyrics to a song recorded by the Bothy Band. The song is the second track on the album "Best of the Bothy Band." They cite the title as pretty peg but no lyrics I can find under that title match the song I am looking for. Thanks for any info. |
Subject: RE: Lyric Req: From: Michael Carr Date: 19 Mar 97 - 06:59 PM I think I can get them for you. That's a nice song, and I like the tune that comes after it. I used to know the lyrics, but my copy of the tape combusted and I hav'nt been able to listen to it in a while. I'll see what I can dig up. |
Subject: RE: Lyric Req: From: Susan of DT Date: 19 Mar 97 - 07:28 PM Look at Bonnie Lass of Fyvio and Bonnie Lass of Fenario to see if these are the "Pretty Peg" you are looking for. Search on Fyvio and Fenario, since 'bonnie' has too many alternate spellings. |
Subject: Lyr Add: PRETTY PEG or THE KEECH IN THE CREEL ^^^ From: LaMarca Date: 20 Mar 97 - 11:51 AM The song isn't a variant of Fenario; it's a version of the Child ballad "The Keech in the Creel" These are the words from my memory; there's a few gaps here and there. I typed this out at least a month ago in answer to this request before...
When Pretty Peg walked down the street some fresh fish for to buy, REFRAIN: With my tiddy-right-fol-da-liddle-dido, with my tiddy-right-fol-da-liddle-day.
"Oh, how can I get to your chamber, love? How can I get to your bed,
"Oh, go and get a ladder, love, with thirty steps and three,
He's gone and got a ladder of thirty steps and three,
No peace nor sleep could the old wife get with dreams running through her head.
He's gone creeping up the stairs as soft as he could steal.
"My curse upon thee, father! What brought thee up so soon,
He's gone back to his gay old wife. He's gone back to she.
No peace nor ease could the old wife get till she's gone up to see.
"Oh, high I rocked her. Didn't I rock her? Didn't I rock her well?
There's a Scottish version of this called "The Blue Blanket" where the young man has an accomplice to lower him down the chimney. When Dad comes up to check on his daughter, she wraps her boyfriend up in a blue blanket to hide him. When Momma comes up to spy, she falls into the basket, and the accomplice starts hauling her up the chimney. She screams that the Devil had got her, the accomplice keeps her busy, and daughter and sweetheart have a good time... |
Subject: RE: Lyric Req: From: Jon W. Date: 10 Feb 98 - 11:41 AM I'll refresh this as it has been brought up in another thread and also supply some corrections in the last twp verses:
No peace nor ease could the old wife get til she's gone up to see.
Oh, high (how?) I rocked her. Ho, I rocked her. Didn't I rock her well? |
Subject: RE: Lyric Req: From: Bruce O. Date: 10 Feb 98 - 12:14 PM "Keach in the Creel". There is an early version of this Child ballad that Child ignored. It is "The Contriving Lover", listed in the internet broadside ballad index at ZN2291. |
Subject: RE: Lyric Req: From: Joe Offer Date: 17 Apr 01 - 07:14 PM LaMarca's rendition of the lyrics is in the Digital Tradition (click), complete with the memory lapses. Can anybody fill in the blanks? -Joe Offer- Can we patch these two together and come up with something complete? |
Subject: Lyr Add: PRETTY PEG (Bothy Band) From: Wolfgang Date: 23 Apr 01 - 03:49 AM With Triona's fast singing to the background of Bothy Band's multiinstrumental accompaniment this task would have been too difficult for me had I not found a very close printed version in Cathal O Boyle's 'Songs of the County Down'. It is titled 'Newry Town' in that book and the data of origin is given as 1840. Mary LaMarca's verses are pretty close to the singing of the Bothy Band and it is not worth trying to correct the odd word and in this process perhaps introducing new mistakes. Below you'll find La Marca's version with my changes in bold. When I wasn't sure what Triona actually was singing I have used the respective line from 'Songs of the County Down'. Wolfgang
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