Lyr Req: Half Crown (sexy version?)

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Half Crown (sexy version?)
From: Gurney
Date: 05 Jul 08 - 09:58 PM

If you're after sexy 1/2 crown things...

Jack and Jill went up the hill
each had a shilling and a quarter.
Jill came down with half-a-crown.
.....They didn't go up for water!

Subject: Lyr Add: THE HALF CROWN
From: Jim Carroll
Date: 05 Jul 08 - 01:12 PM

This is the song we recorded from Travellers and from West Clare, along with the notes we used for Vincie Boyle's version on the CD, 'Around The Hills of Clare'.
It can also be found on a shorter version on the Travellers' CD, From Puck to Appleby,
Jim Carroll

THE HALF CROWN
Roud 16988

Vincie Boyle
Miltown Malbay.

'Twas lately DeValera set out in the Dail,
Said the population of Ireland was beginning to fall;
And then to prevent it and not let it down,
To every child born he'd give a half crown.

I'm a young single man and I'm fed up of life,
I lately set out in search of a wife,
I married a widow and we both settled down,
And I'm doing my best for the blooming half crown.

The job, it proved harder than people may think.
The night we got married, sure, I ne'er slept a wink.
The wife, she keeps at me, she calls me a clown,
And said I'm doing nothing for the blooming half crown.

I'm a young married man and I'm tired of life;
Half killed and half crazy from this strap of a wife;
If we haven't a family 'tis me she will drown.
I'm in a hell of a fix for the blooming half crown.

Since the blooming thing started I'm nearly half dead;
Last night we broke down all the springs in the bed;
Said, she, "it's no us, for I'm now sixty three".
"Oh bedad then", says I, "there's no half crown for me".

So now I resemble a half hungry goose;
Every bone in my body disjointed and loose;
The people when pass me, they say with a frown;
"The cause of your death will be the half crown".

So all ye who're about to be wed;
Check your wife's age before going to bed;
Don't have her to tell you, as mine told me;
There's no half a crown from a three score and three.

A Children's Allowance of two shillings and sixpence for each child, introduced by Eamon deValera's newly elected Fianna Fa/il government in the early 1930s, gave rise to a number of songs and poems, and gave the term "making a half crown" a special meaning. This is one of those songs.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Half Crown (sexy version?)
From: GUEST
Date: 05 Jul 08 - 10:57 AM

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Half Crown (sexy version?)
From: Joe Offer
Date: 06 Jul 07 - 05:22 PM

You know, we never did get an answer to this.
-Joe-

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: HALF CROWN COIN
From: GUEST,Boston Bill
Date: 18 Feb 02 - 12:51 AM

Thanks Joe + All-

I may have to tape the song on monday nite, but it tells the story of an older man who married a much younger lass. And how he was quickly worn out!

More later, Bill

Subject: HALF CROWN COIN
From: GUEST,Boston Bill
Date: 05 Feb 02 - 01:57 PM

I have snipets from this humorous/spicy song:

...bloody half crown...I'm nearly half dead... ...fell through in the springs in the bed... ...I'm nearly sixty three...

See if this is enough.

Thanks, Bill

Yeah the Patriots WON !!!

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: need Lyrics: HALF CROWN
From: GUEST,Boston Bill
Date: 30 May 01 - 01:10 AM

Thanks eveyone but the version I heard last Friday nite was a lot sexier and less to do with food. An older man married a young cailin(colleen) with a healthy sexual appetite! The Galway singer said he'd write down the lyrics. If so, I'll post. Bill

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: need Lyrics: HALF CROWN
From: Malcolm Douglas
Date: 29 May 01 - 10:07 PM

See also:

Only a half-a-crown

Pretty Little Dear

Subject: Lyr Add: THE HALF CROWN SONG
From: Frank Maher
Date: 29 May 01 - 09:13 PM

The Half Crown Song

I took my girl to a fancy ball. It was a social hop.
We stayed all night until the break of daylight, waiting for the music to stop.
Into a restaurant we went, the finest on the street.
She said she was not hungry, but this is what she eat:

A dozen raw, a plate of slaw, a chicken and a roast,
Asparagrass and apple sauce, with soft-shell crab on toast,
An Irish stew, and dumplings too. Her appetite made me frown.
When she called for pie, I thought I'd die, for I had but half a crown.

You bet I wasn't hungry. I didn't care to eat.
I've got money in my clothes, the best that can't be beat.
She took things so easy! she had an awful tank.
She said she was not thirsty, but this is what she drank:

A glass of ale, a gin cocktail. It made me shake with fear.
A ginger pop with rum on top, and then a jug of beer;
A whiskey stein, a glass of wine. She sure could drink it down!
When she called for more, I fell on the floor, for I had but half a crown.

You bet I wasn't hungry. I didn't care to eat,
Expecting every moment to be kicked out in the street.
She said she'd bring her friends around someday and we'd have fun.
I showed the man my two and six, and this is what he done:

He smashed my nose. He tore my clothes. He hit me on the head.
He grabbed me by the collar then, 'til I was nearly dead.
He caught me where my pants hung loose. He turned me upside down.
Take my advice: don't try it twice, when you got but half a crown.

Joe Flanagan...1933

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: need Lyrics: HALF CROWN
From: MartinRyan
Date: 29 May 01 - 12:00 PM

A Google search turns up a reference to a song of that name on a Flanagan Brothers recording. No lyrics.

Regards

Subject: need Lyrics: HALF CROWN
From: GUEST,Boston Bill
Date: 29 May 01 - 11:49 AM

HALF CROWN is a spicey old Irish tune. Maybe a Galway song. Thanks all. Bill