Subject: Tune Add: PATRICK WAS A GENTLEMAN (John J Leahy) From: John in Brisbane Date: 15 Jul 99 - 10:57 PM Here's the tune!
MIDI file: stpatric.mid Timebase: 192 Name: PATRICK WAS A GENTLEMAN This program is worth the effort of learning it. To download the March 10 MIDItext 98 software and get instructions on how to use it click here ABC format: X:1
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Subject: RE: New Tune/Lyr Req; Patrick Was a Gentleman From: Liam's Brother Date: 15 Jul 99 - 11:22 PM Hi John! There was a music hall song written, I believe, by Harrigan & Hart that goes something like...
St. Patrick was a gentleman his name we celebrate Let me know if this is the one. I have the words on sheet music and also in a book. Both are in storage. I'll pick them up and type out the rest of the words if you'd like them. Sackville Street was renamed O'Connell Street (Dublin's main street) after the Revolution. I believe the Harrigan & Hart original probably used "Broadway."
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Subject: Lyr/Tune Add: PATRICK WAS A GENTLEMAN From: Date: 15 Jul 99 - 11:46 PM [From songbook of 1828]
Saint Patrick was a gentelman, and came o' dacent people,
The Wicklow hills are very high, and so's the hill of Howth, too;
No wonder that we Irish boys should be so gay and frisky,
Then should I be so fortunate as to go back to Munster,
X:1 Song and tune are also in J. Henderson's 'Flowers of Irish Melody', Belfast, 1847. |
Subject: RE: New Tune/Lyr Req; Patrick Was a Gentleman From: Date: 16 Jul 99 - 12:23 AM Note that that above muat be a different song, as it has a very different tune. |
Subject: Lyr Add: ST. PATRICK WAS A GENTLEMAN From: Murray on Salt Spring Date: 16 Jul 99 - 03:02 AM The following variant text is from the Scottish Students' Song Book, circa 1890 methinks.
1. St. Patrick was a gentleman, he came of dacent people,
CHORUS: Then success to bold St. Patrick's fist;
2. There's not a mile in Ireland's isle, where the dirty vermin musters,
3. Nine hundred thousand vipers blue, he charm'd with sweet discourses,
4, The Wicklow hills are very high and so's the hill of Howth, sir; |
Subject: RE: New Tune/Lyr Req; Patrick Was a Gentleman From: John in Brisbane Date: 16 Jul 99 - 03:29 AM The words that I've heard are a mix of Murray's and Bruces. |
Subject: RE: New Tune/Lyr Req; Patrick Was a Gentleman From: Date: 16 Jul 99 - 04:07 AM According to Helen K. Johnson's 'Our Familiar Songs, and Those That Made Them', 1881 (with considerably better notes than in most books of that ilk). The song originally consisted of 3 stanzas written by Henry Bennett and a Mr. Toleken of Cork, in 1814, and they sang alternate lines of it in a mmasquerade. Mr. Toleken slightly later added another stanza, and 2 stanzas are of unknown origin (but are obviously early ones). (Commencement of verses follows; numbers are those in her text)
Joint: Toleken's: Unknown origin:
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