Lyr Req: Paddy from Cork

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Paddy from Cork
From: GUEST,John Moulden
Date: 25 Mar 11 - 11:57 AM

Here's a bit for you:

        Paddy from Cork has never been
        Never a railway train has seen
        Never has seen the great machine
        That runs on the iron railway.
(Alice Kane: Songs and Sayings of an Ulster Childhood page74 - edited by Edith Fowke)

Other bits are in Lady Gomme's book about Children's Games (vol. 2 p. 36); David Holbrook's Children's Games p. 117 and elsewhere. Edith Fowke only knew of one North American report, collected by Leonora Pauls from Arthur Rowe of Edmonton in 1981 but I have no idea where that version ended up.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Paddy from Cork
From: GUEST
Date: 24 Mar 11 - 07:51 PM

All these lovely letters about the song 'Paddy from Cork'were written in 2007 and here it is 2011 and I am looking for the words to that very song. My Dad used to sing it at Easter when we children were hunting for eggs and if we got close to a hidden one he would sing the song very loud and if we were not close to finding one he would sing it very softly...it went like this: "Paddy from Cork had never been...a railroad car he'd never seen, " ..... BUT BEYOND THAT I CAN'T REMEMBER .......DOES ANYONE KNOW IT????

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Paddy from Cork
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 23 Apr 07 - 10:28 PM

WorldCat lists a song called PADDY FROM CORK (THE BLARNEY SONG) by Cora B Ahrens, from 1911.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Paddy from Cork
From: GUEST,Martin Ryan
Date: 19 Apr 07 - 04:04 PM

Not having any luck so far, either. I may be in the Traditional Music Archive in Dublin over the next week or so and will try there.

Regards

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Paddy from Cork
From: Gulliver
Date: 19 Apr 07 - 02:47 PM

The song she's looking for has "holes in his britches..."

Can't place it meself...

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Paddy from Cork
From: The Sandman
Date: 19 Apr 07 - 02:35 PM

something about goats,could it be the day the goat got loose on grand parade,or the Dingle Puck Goat.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Paddy from Cork
From: Fergie
Date: 19 Apr 07 - 11:34 AM

Knudge

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Paddy from Cork
From: Scoville
Date: 06 Apr 07 - 03:48 PM

I had this sudden flash:

Oh, do you remember sweet Paddy from Cork,
Who crossed the wide prairie with his cousin Mork . . .





It's been a long day.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Paddy from Cork
From: Fergie
Date: 06 Apr 07 - 02:38 PM

I'll refresh this one again, 'cos I would like to have the full lyrics

Fergus

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Paddy from Cork
From: Fergie
Date: 02 Apr 07 - 05:08 PM

Ah! terrier sound man (it is man? is it not?) well done, thank you! Will you show me how to do that?

The piece is on the page numbered 131

Fergus

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Paddy from Cork
From: terrier
Date: 02 Apr 07 - 04:56 PM

Hello New York

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Paddy from Cork
From: Fergie
Date: 02 Apr 07 - 11:29 AM

Sorry about that. The link doesen't work. A mudelf might fix it

Fergus

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Paddy from Cork
From: Fergie
Date: 02 Apr 07 - 11:21 AM

Can't find the full lyrics but the song is mentioned in an old book called 'Yesterday in Old New York' this link might get you to it

www.hellonewyork.com/BookFiles/11%20From%201833%20To%2018601.pdf

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Paddy from Cork
From: Fergie
Date: 01 Apr 07 - 11:31 PM

Wouldn't like to see this one fall off the radar unnoticed
Fergus

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Paddy from Cork
From: Fergie
Date: 30 Mar 07 - 09:45 PM

Patience mg patience.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Paddy from Cork
From: GUEST,mg
Date: 30 Mar 07 - 07:30 PM

oh surely someone knows this beautiful song. Could I have stumped the band? mg

Subject: Lyr Req: Paddy from Cork
From: GUEST,mg
Date: 30 Mar 07 - 04:27 PM

my sister said my father used to sing this all the time..something about a goat. Any more verses..she gave me one..holes in his britches as big as new york..I swear I never heard him sing anything other than McNamara's Band and Jim O'Shea was cast away, although he said his father was a great singer. mg