ADD: Pride of Pimlico

Subject: a few words, please? (pride of pemlico)
From: erica
Date: 08 May 97 - 08:30 PM

hey y'all, there's an awesome cheiftains song which is called something like 'the pride of pemlico'--i don't know which album it's on, but it's just vocals and bodhran. it starts "come all ye broken hearted ones, and listen to me lay// about a loveli damsel as fair as any may" and...well, that's about all i know. if anyone could help out, i'd love you so much. peace, and be merry!!

Subject: RE: a few words, please? (pride of pemlico)
From: erica, again
Date: 08 May 97 - 08:34 PM

i think i tried this before, but i don't think it worked. keepin' the fingers crossed!!

Subject: RE: a few words, please? (pride of pemlico)
From: Martin Ryan
Date: 09 May 97 - 07:00 AM

I posted these words some time ago to another thread. May have got lost in recent crashes. If so, I 'll repost when I get a chance

Regards

Subject: RE: a few words, please? (pride of pemlico)
From: the ever present erica
Date: 09 May 97 - 03:39 PM

martin, my good man, thank you so very much. whenever you get the chance, i'd so love if you could get me those lyrics. thanks again.

erica

Subject: Lyr Add: PRIDE OF PIMLICO
From: Martin Ryan
Date: 11 May 97 - 03:58 PM

Here goes. Place names are all in the "Liberties" - an old area of Dublin.

PRIDE OF PIMLICO

Come all ye broken hearted ones and listen to my lay
About a lovely damsel, as fair as any may,
Who's caused much tears and sorrow and grief and heartfelt woe.
It's Kitty Flynn I'm speaking of, the Pride of Pimlico.

It's just about a month ago unto this place she came,
And set our hearts a-blazing up in love's undying flame,
And made of every other lass about the place a foe,
Because she took their sweethearts, did the Pride of Pimlico.

Poor Paddy Burke the tailor now can't do a stroke of work,
Nor Billy Shee the handyman, nor steady Jack McGurk;
And if you ax the reason, all they'll answer you is: "O
'Tis all because of Kitty Quinn, the Pride of Pimlico."

Old Jimmy Kane the miser that no one could get round,
And young Tom Ray who owns a forge and near a hundred pound,
And Matt McCann whose father keeps the Irish Waxwork Show
Are raving night and day about the Price of Pimlico.

It's time the polis saw to it. It soon will be too late,
An divil a man in all the Coombe will have a solid pate,
Or soon beyond in Riley's, a sight of awful woe
You'll see ten thousand victims of the Pride of Pimlico!

Written by Arthur Griffith - the man who negotiated the
Anglo-Irish Treaty in 1920/1.

Subject: RE: a few words, please? (pride of pemlico)
From: erica
Date: 15 May 97 - 03:39 PM

yay! :) thank you so much

Subject: RE: a few words, please? (pride of pemlico)
From: Murray
Date: 24 May 97 - 02:37 AM

Another stanza (should be 4th):

There's Murphy, the teetotaler, he's gone upon the spree,
And Keogh, the whiskey drinker, now is taking milk and tea,
He's given up John Jameson, and likewise Power and Roe,
Because his heart's distracted by the Pride of Pimlico.

The lass's name, by the way, is Quinn and not Flynn. [This text in Colm O Lochlainn,"More Irish Street Ballads" (Dublin: Three Candles, 1965), 265-6.]

Subject: RE: a few words, please? (pride of pemlico)
From: erica
Date: 28 May 97 - 06:07 PM

thank you, sir murray, i did think that there was another verse but couldn't quite place it (or thought it to be merely my silly head)

Subject: RE: a few words, please? (pride of pemlico)
From: Martin Ryan
Date: 29 May 97 - 05:35 AM

Must be these bloody bifocals - I missed a verse!

Sorry

Regards

Subject: ADD: Pride of Pimlico (Arthur Griffith)
From: Joe Offer
Date: 05 Aug 24 - 04:17 PM

A few corrections to the lyrics posted above.

PRIDE OF PIMLICO
(Arthur Griffith)

Come all ye broken-hearted ones and listen to my lay
About a lovely damsel, as fair as this blest May,
Who's caused much tears and sorrow and grief and heartfelt woe,
It's Kitty Quinn I'm speaking of, the Pride of Pimlico.

It's just about a month ago unto this place she came,
And set our hearts all blazing up in love's undying flame,
And made of every other lass about the place a foe,
Because she took their sweethearts, did the Pride of Pimlico.

Poor Paddy Burke the tailor now can't do a stroke of work,
Nor Billy Shee the handyman, nor steady Jack M'Gurk;
And if you ax the reason, all they'll answer you is: "O!
'Tis all because of Kitty Quinn, the Pride of Pimlico."

There's Murphy, the teetotaler, he's gone upon the spree,
And Keogh, the whiskey drinker, now is taking milk and tea,
He's given up John Jameson, and likewise Power and Roe,
Because his heart's distracted by the Pride of Pimlico.

Old Jimmy Kane, the miser, that no one could get around,
And young Tom Ray, who owns a forge and near a hundred pound,
And Mat McCann whose father keeps the Irish Waxwork show
Are raving night and day about the Pride of Pimlico.

It's time the polis saw to it. It soon will be too late,
An' divil a man in all the Coombe will have a solid pate,
Or soon beyond in Ridley's, a sight of awful woe
You'll see ten thousand victims of the Pride of Pimlico!

Written by Arthur Griffith - the man who negotiated the
Anglo-Irish Treaty in 1920/1.

[This text in Colm O Lochlainn,"More Irish Street Ballads" (Dublin: Three Candles, 1965), 265-6.] -the very last song in the book

Chieftains recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVcGVB7NJmQ

Harry O'Donoghue recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QthnTdfDuZU

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And the Traditional Ballad Index entry:

Pride of Pimlico, The

DESCRIPTION: Kitty Quinn comes to town "And made of every other lass about the place a foe Because she took their sweethearts." The men can't work, the drinkers give up drink, and the teetotalers take up alcohol. Soon there'll be 10000 victims of the Pride of Pimlico.
AUTHOR: Arthur Griffith
EARLIEST DATE: 1965 (OLochlainn-MoreIrishStreetBallads)
KEYWORDS: love humorous drink
FOUND IN: Ireland
REFERENCES (1 citation):
OLochlainn-MoreIrishStreetBallads, pp. 265-266, "The Pride of Pimlico" (1 text)
File: OLcM265

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VWML shows one entry, but I don't understand how to access it.
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Subject: RE: ADD: Pride of Pimlico
From: leeneia
Date: 07 Aug 24 - 11:50 PM

I love this song. It's such a delight to see the ways the author finds words to rhyme with the o in Pimlico.