05 Jan 01 - 01:55 PM (#369174) Subject: Paddy on the Railway From: MMario according to this site: url =http://www.traditionalmusic.co.uk/irish-folk-music/007909.HTM the tune is for the words in the DT as songfile PADRAIL2 - Paddy on the Railway. I can't get the words to fit to the tune, even discounting the repeats in the score. Anyone else able to do so? Noteworthy file available on request... |
05 Jan 01 - 02:55 PM (#369193) Subject: RE: Help: Paddy on the Railway From: GUEST,Annegi Paddy on the railway Picking up stones Along came an engine and broke Paddy's bones 'Oh', said Paddy 'that's not fair' 'Oh', said the engine man, 'You shouln't be there' |
05 Jan 01 - 02:57 PM (#369195) Subject: RE: Help: Paddy on the Railway From: MMario guest - we HAVE the lyrics, we are trying to fit them to the tune as shown on the site in the first post. they don't seem to fit. |
05 Jan 01 - 03:16 PM (#369200) Subject: RE: Help: Paddy on the Railway From: Fergie in the fifties when I was a child we uses to say it as a skipping rhyme but last line was "Ah said the engine driver I dont care" we used sing a song with the same name but differant words which began "in 1841 me corduroy britches I put on" |
05 Jan 01 - 05:05 PM (#369267) Subject: RE: Help: Paddy on the Railway From: Malcolm Douglas The tune MMario found is a reel, more usually known as Paddy on the Railroad (in America) or The Merry Blacksmith (over here). "Paddy on the Railway" as given in the DT is a quite different thing. I remember the song Fergie mentions as "Working on the Railway", or "Paddy Works on the Railway", but that wasn't sung to the reel, of course. There's another song, too, "Paddy on the Railway"; there are several broadside copies at the Bodleian Library. Here is one: Paddy on the railway printed between 1858 and 1885 by W.S. Fortey, Monmouth Court, Bloomsbury, London. That one doesn't fit the reel, either, and looks as if it should have a 3/4 rhythm. Malcolm |
05 Jan 01 - 05:08 PM (#369272) Subject: RE: Help: Paddy on the Railway From: MMario okay - probably a mismatch on their site. Thanks malcolm. |
05 Jan 01 - 07:46 PM (#369379) Subject: RE: Help: Paddy on the Railway From: Jon Freeman MMario, their site does quote the words given by Annegi above and I can get them to fit the reel they give so I don't think that there is a mismatch. Incidentally, I remeber that verse as:
Piggy on the railway picking up sones Jon
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05 Jan 01 - 08:40 PM (#369406) Subject: RE: Help: Paddy on the Railway From: MMario JOhn - do you have Noteworthy? Joe and I have both tried to put the words to that music and failed. |
05 Jan 01 - 08:57 PM (#369419) Subject: RE: Help: Paddy on the Railway From: Jon Freeman I have it somewhere MMario but it is a long while since I have used it and I am not sure that I would be able to do it that way. I can sing the words Paddy's on the railroad picking up stones to The Merry Blacksmith tune though - not easy but it can be done. Jo |
06 Jan 01 - 05:23 PM (#369928) Subject: RE: Help: Paddy on the Railway From: GUEST,hobie try these lyrics: In eighteen heundred and eighty one--------just a lad still havin fun--------i put my courdeoy britches on----------a worin in the rail way---------fiddly orry orry aye, fiddly orry orry aye, fiddly orry orry aye a workin on the railway. Or e-mail me at hobie@netins.net maybe i can use the weirrd littl ephone thing on my puter, |
08 Jul 11 - 01:12 PM (#3183824) Subject: RE: Need Tune Help: Paddy on the Railway From: GUEST,Lanzecki My father used to sing this when I was a child. The words he knew were: Paddy's on the railway, picking up stones. Along came the Engine and broke Paddy's bones. "Ouch," said Paddy. "That's not fair." "Poop." Said the Engine. "You shouldn'a been there." His family came from southern Ireland (County Mayo) so it was always sung in a soft Irish brogue. |
08 Jul 11 - 04:45 PM (#3183942) Subject: RE: Need Tune Help: Paddy on the Railway From: Snuffy The tune for "Paddy/Piggy/Sally on the railway picking up stones" is the A part of Shepherd's Hey X:1 T:Shepherds' Hey M:4/4 L:1/8 Q:120 K:D :FGAF G2G2|FGAF E2E2|FGAF G2FG|A2A,2 D4:| :F2D2 G3E |F2D2 E4 |FGAF G2FG|A2A,2 D4:| |
08 Jul 11 - 05:31 PM (#3183957) Subject: RE: Need Tune Help: Paddy on the Railway From: Amos Not to be confused with the Paddy song that ends ""T will be when the railway runs over the sea!", a maritime version with a different tune. |
08 Jul 11 - 06:32 PM (#3183987) Subject: RE: Need Tune Help: Paddy on the Railway From: dick greenhaus Names, as someone once remarked, are a snare and a delusion.I know at least three tunes titled (sometimes) Paddy on the Railway, and one which puts him on the Turnpike. |