Help: Road to Athy + Where the Old Allegheny...

Subject: Road to Athay
From: GUEST,Mark Greenberg
Date: 09 Jun 00 - 10:27 AM

For an upcoming Pete Seeger anthology, I need info on "The Road to Athy" (on "Rainbow Quest") and "Where the Old Allegheny and Monongahela Flow") ("Am. Ballads, 4"). Thanks

Subject: RE: Road to Athay
From: GUEST,Mrr
Date: 09 Jun 00 - 02:32 PM

Is the Road to Athay the Irish equivalent of When Johnny Comes Marching Home? I have one about Going the road to sweet Athay, huroo, huroo, (repeat), a stick in me hand and a drop in me eye, A doleful damsel I heard cry Johnny I hardly knew ye... and, it's Allegheny, but other than the chorus I don't know that one.

Subject: RE: Road to Athay
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 10 Jun 00 - 06:27 AM

The song's in the Digital Tradition as JOHNNY I HARDLY KNEW YE - to find a song, just enter a word you know is in it in the box at the top of the page, and see what turns up.

And Athy is a small town in Kildare

Subject: RE: Road to Athay
From: O'Boyle
Date: 11 Jun 00 - 04:34 AM

What do a pants leg and Kildare have in common?

They both have a thigh in them.

Sorry, read that in Portrait of an Artist as Young Man and had to repeat it here.

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Go here: Lyr Add: JOHNNY, I HARDLY KNEW YE
or here: Lyr Add: WHERE THE OLD ALLEGHENY AND MONONGAHELA FLOW--JoeClone, 9-Dec-2009.