{"id":457,"date":"2015-10-06T14:06:14","date_gmt":"2015-10-06T13:06:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/en\/an-old-man-came-courting-me\/"},"modified":"2015-10-06T15:14:15","modified_gmt":"2015-10-06T14:14:15","slug":"an-old-man-came-courting-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/en\/an-old-man-came-courting-me\/","title":{"rendered":"An Old Man Came Courting Me"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 id=\"t:seinnteoirin1\">Play recording: An Old Man Came Courting Me<\/h2>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-457-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/00-micil\/me\u00e1in\/an-old-man-came-courting-me.mp3?_=1\" \/><source type=\"audio\/ogg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/00-micil\/me\u00e1in\/an-old-man-came-courting-me.ogg?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/00-micil\/me\u00e1in\/an-old-man-came-courting-me.mp3\">https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/00-micil\/me\u00e1in\/an-old-man-came-courting-me.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<div class=\"dmeite\">\n<p><span class=\"nmeite\" id=\"neasc-nocht-ceilth\">view \/ hide recording details [+\/-]<\/span><\/p>\n<ul id=\"clarMeiteashonrai\" class=\"meiteashonrai\">\n<li><span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai\">Teideal <span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai-bearla\">(Title)<\/span>:<\/span> An Old Man Came Courting Me.<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai\">Uimhir Chatal\u00f3ige Ollscoil Washington <span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai-bearla\">(University of Washington Catalogue Number)<\/span>:<\/span> 840120.<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai\">Uimhir Chnuasach Bh\u00e9aloideas \u00c9ireann <span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai-bearla\">(National Folklore of Ireland Number)<\/span>:<\/span> none.<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai\">Uimhir Roud <span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai-bearla\">(Roud Number)<\/span>:<\/span> 210.<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai\">Uimhir Laws <span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai-bearla\">(Laws Number)<\/span>:<\/span> none.<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai\">Uimhir Child <span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai-bearla\">(Child Number)<\/span>:<\/span> none.<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai\">Cnuasach <span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai-bearla\">(Collection)<\/span>:<\/span> Joe Heaney Collection, University of Washington, Seattle.<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai\">Teanga na Cro\u00edmh\u00edre <span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai-bearla\">(Core-Item Language)<\/span>:<\/span> English.<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai\">Catag\u00f3ir <span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai-bearla\">(Category)<\/span>:<\/span> song.<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai\">Ainm an t\u00e9 a thug <span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai-bearla\">(Name of Informant)<\/span>:<\/span> Joe Heaney.<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai\">Ainm an t\u00e9 a th\u00f3g <span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai-bearla\">(Name of Collector)<\/span>:<\/span> unavailable.<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai\">D\u00e1ta an taifeadta <span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai-bearla\">(Recording Date)<\/span>:<\/span> 24\/01\/1984.<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai\">Su\u00edomh an taifeadta <span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai-bearla\">(Recording Location)<\/span>:<\/span> University of Washington, United States of America.<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai\">Oc\u00e1id an taifeadta <span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai-bearla\">(Recording Occasion)<\/span>:<\/span> evening class.<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai\">Daoine eile a bh\u00ed i l\u00e1thair <span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai-bearla\">(Others present)<\/span>:<\/span> unavailable.<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai\">St\u00e1das ch\u00f3ipcheart an taifeadta <span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai-bearla\">(Recording copyright status)<\/span>:<\/span> unavailable.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p>This was the golden rule: never tell a story in company, or never sing a song, that a twelve-year-old child cannot listen to. That was the golden rule &#8211; and still is. You don&#8217;t say anything that would, sort of, be bad for a child to hear. And I&#8217;ve heard stories &#8211; I grew up with stories &#8211; I never heard a story that had anything in it except straightforward action and talk. There was no talk about the usual subject at the moment. People grew up&hellip; to learn about that themselves. When you&#8217;re mature you learn a lot of things that you&#8217;re not supposed to learn before you&#8217;re mature.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, this fellow was quite mature, and&hellip; hrrrm. I may as well as sing it then. After that we&#8217;ll sing a nice song. I&#8217;ll sing a nice song with you all.<\/p>\n<p>An old man came courting me, high do oh darity<br \/>\nAn old man came courting me, me being young<br \/>\nAn old man came courting me,<br \/>\nThen he proposed to me.<br \/>\nOh, maids when you&#8217;re young never wed an old man.<\/p>\n<p>For he&#8217;s got no faloorum, fal-diddle fal-doorum<br \/>\nFor he&#8217;s got no faloorum, fal-diddle fal-dee<br \/>\nHe&#8217;s got no faloorum,<br \/>\nHe lost his ding-doorum<br \/>\nSo maids when you&#8217;re young, never wed an old man.<\/p>\n<p>Now when we went to the church, high do oh darity<br \/>\nWhen we went to the church, me being young<br \/>\nWhen we went to the church,<br \/>\nHe lay there in the lurch.<br \/>\nMaids when you&#8217;re young, never wed an old man.<\/p>\n<p>Refrain<\/p>\n<p>When we went into bed, high do oh darity<br \/>\nWhen we went into bed, me being young<br \/>\nWhen we went into bed,<br \/>\nHe lay there as if he was dead.<br \/>\nMaids when you&#8217;re young, never wed an old man.<\/p>\n<p>Refrain<\/p>\n<p>I put my leg over him, high do oh darity<br \/>\nI put my leg over him, me being young<br \/>\nI put my leg over him,<br \/>\nDamn&#8217; nearly smothered him.<br \/>\nMaids when you&#8217;re young never wed an old man.<\/p>\n<p>Refrain<\/p>\n<p>When he was fast asleep, high do oh darity<br \/>\nWhen he was fast asleep, me being young<br \/>\nWhen he was fast asleep,<br \/>\nOut of bed I did creep<br \/>\nInto the arms of a handsome young man.<\/p>\n<p>Oh he had faloorum, fal-diddle fal-doorum<br \/>\nHe had faloorum, fal-diddle fal-dee<br \/>\nHe had faloorum,<br \/>\nHe found my ding-doorum<br \/>\nSo maids when you&#8217;re young, never wed an old man.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"templates\/template-full-width.php","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-amhrain","category-amhrain-i-mbearla"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=457"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":701,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457\/revisions\/701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}