Lyr Req: Jobber from Clare

Subject: Lyr Req: Jobber from Clare
From:
Date: 11 Jul 04 - 08:02 AM

Does anybody have the words of Jobber from Clare

Subject: Lyr Add: PADDY FROM CLARE (from Donagh MacDonagh)
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 15 Jul 04 - 09:33 AM

Is this the one you want?
This was collected by Donagh MacDonagh.
Copied from http://members.tripod.com/~songbook1/PaddyfromClare.html

PADDY FROM CLARE

I was processed for the rent, and being short of a gale,
I sold my last beast in the town of Rathkeal
To a crafty old codger that I met at the fair.
They call him old Paddy, the jobber from Clare.

When the bargain was made and the money paid down,
I called for a treat before leaving the town.
When he swallowed his porter, he grinned like a bear.
"'Tis like creamery milk," says the jobber from Clare.

He said, "Bring the same," but I answered him no,
I said 'twas a shame to be drinking also,
"But get something to eat. You are hungry, I swear."
"Ah, there's nothing like eating," says Paddy from Clare.

He says, "Praties are scarce and the meal is too high.
The fodder is bad and the cattle will die.
Famine is coming. You had better prepare.
'Tis the end of the world," says Paddy from Clare.

"But the latest of fashions our servants display.
They are jazzing the night and asleep all the day,
And all the young girls are a-bobbing their hair.
'Twill make stuffing for saddles," said Paddy from Clare.

"Each swanky spailpin has a watch and a chain,
And rides his machine though the mud and the rain,
And soon they'll demand rashers as soon as you're there.
No wonder we're broke," said old Paddy from Clare.

He finished his rashers and his tea he gulped down.
We shook hands and parted at the end of the town,
But 'tis often I laugh though my pockets are bare
When I think of old Paddy, the jobber from Clare.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Jobber from Clare
From: GUEST
Date: 13 Jul 12 - 05:55 AM

This is exactly the one I was looking for! My old lyrics for this were even missing a verse or two.. Thanks!!!

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Jobber from Clare
From: Fergie
Date: 13 Jul 12 - 08:10 AM

Hi all,

Anything on the history of this song; Who composed it? When? and the air?

Fergus

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Jobber from Clare
From: GUEST,999
Date: 13 Jul 12 - 01:47 PM

http://abcnotation.com/tunePage?a=trillian.mit.edu/~jc/music/abc/mirror/redhawk.org/zouki/CRE4/0106

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Jobber from Clare
From: GUEST,Lola from Clare
Date: 05 Dec 12 - 08:38 AM

Fantastic to get the words of this song,only heard it once on radio & wished to learn it . Where can i hear it played to get the air. Thanks a mil.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Jobber from Clare
From: Jim Carroll
Date: 05 Dec 12 - 09:04 AM

Same tune as 'Rambler from Clare' - traditional and re-written by MacColl for TV film 'The Irishman' in the early sixties
Jim Carroll

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Jobber from Clare
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 05 Dec 12 - 09:52 AM

According to the US Catalog of Copyright Entries, a song called PADDY FROM CLARE, with words and music by Mervyn Saunders, was registered on April 28, 1939, Keith, Prowse & Co., Ltd., London, publishers.

The British Library has a copy of the sheet music.

Of course, I can't be sure it's the right song.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Jobber from Clare
From: GUEST,Lola
Date: 05 Dec 12 - 10:12 AM

Thank you so much for reply.
Will check it out.
Happy Christmas to you.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Jobber from Clare
From: GUEST
Date: 20 Dec 12 - 06:11 PM

Hi there

The song is recorded by a singer from Cork Elle Marie O Dwyer. She launched an album recently. The title of the album is Where the Allow Waters Flow