{"id":476,"date":"2015-10-06T14:06:14","date_gmt":"2015-10-06T13:06:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/en\/kerry-recruit-the\/"},"modified":"2016-01-25T12:19:30","modified_gmt":"2016-01-25T12:19:30","slug":"kerry-recruit-the","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/en\/kerry-recruit-the\/","title":{"rendered":"Kerry Recruit, The"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 id=\"t:seinnteoirin1\">Play recording: Kerry Recruit, The<\/h2>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-476-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/00-micil\/me\u00e1in\/kerry-recruit-the.mp3?_=1\" \/><source type=\"audio\/ogg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/00-micil\/me\u00e1in\/kerry-recruit-the.ogg?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/00-micil\/me\u00e1in\/kerry-recruit-the.mp3\">https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/00-micil\/me\u00e1in\/kerry-recruit-the.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<div class=\"dmeite\">\n<p><span id=\"neasc-nocht-ceilth\" class=\"nmeite\">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> Kerry Recruit, The.<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai\">Uimhir Chatal\u00f3ige Ollscoil Washington <span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai-bearla\">(University of Washington Catalogue Number)<\/span>:<\/span> 853904.<\/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> 520.<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai\">Uimhir Laws <span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai-bearla\">(Laws Number)<\/span>:<\/span> J8.<\/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> Lucy Simpson.<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai\">D\u00e1ta an taifeadta <span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai-bearla\">(Recording Date)<\/span>:<\/span> 24\/07\/1979.<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai\">Su\u00edomh an taifeadta <span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai-bearla\">(Recording Location)<\/span>:<\/span> Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, New York, United States of America.<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai\">Oc\u00e1id an taifeadta <span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai-bearla\">(Recording Occasion)<\/span>:<\/span> private.<\/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 song is another Crimean War song, it&#8217;s about a Kerry man who never in his life before saw a sailing boat, or a gun, or anything, but he got fed up of working at home so he said he&#8217;d be better off in the army. At that time you had to ask the sergeant or the police for a shilling &#8211; that means, you are willing to join the army. Or if you were in a pub drinking, one of the police or the army men put a shilling in your glass; if you drank out of that glass you were automatically in the army. This is how it goes:<\/p>\n<p>And twelve years ago I was digging the land,<br \/>\nWith me brogues on me feet and a spade in me hand<br \/>\nSays I to myself, &#8216;What a pity to see<br \/>\nSuch a fine strapping lad footing turf in Tralee&#8217;<br \/>\nTo me too-ra-na-nya, to me too-ra-na-nya,<br \/>\nTo me too-ra-na noo-ra-na noo-ra-na-nya.<\/p>\n<p>So I buttered me brogues and shook hands with me spade,<br \/>\nAnd away to the fair like a dashing young blade<br \/>\nI met with a sergeant who asked me to &#8216;list,<br \/>\n&#8216;Musha, sergeant a ghr\u00e1, stick the bob in me fist!<\/p>\n<p>And the first thing they gave me they called it a gun,<br \/>\nwith powder and shot and a place for me thumb<br \/>\nAt first she spat fire and then she spat smoke,<br \/>\nAnd she gave me poor shoulder one helluva stroke.<\/p>\n<p>And the next thing they gave me it was a red coat,<br \/>\nwith a strap of fine leather to tie round me throat<br \/>\nThey gave me a quare thing &#8211; I asked what was that,<br \/>\nThey told me it was a cockade for me hat.<\/p>\n<p>And then they marched us all down to the sea,<br \/>\nAnd aboard of a warship bound for the Crimea<br \/>\nWith three sticks in the middle all covered with sheets,<br \/>\nAnd she walked on the water without any feet.<\/p>\n<p>And at Balaclava we landed quite sound,<br \/>\nAnd cold, wet and hungry we lay on the ground<br \/>\nNext morning for action the bugle did call,<br \/>\nAnd we had a hot breakfast &#8211; powder and ball<\/p>\n<p>And we fought at the Alma, likewise Inkermann,<br \/>\nBut the Russians they whaled us at the Redan<br \/>\nIn scaling the walls sure meself lost an eye,<br \/>\nAnd a big Russian bullet ran away with me thigh.<\/p>\n<p>And they sent for the doctor who soon staunched me blood,<br \/>\nAnd they gave me an elegant leg made of wood<br \/>\nThey gave me a medal and ten pence a day,<br \/>\nContented with Sheelagh, I&#8217;d live on half pay.<\/p>\n<p>And it&#8217;s often I thought of me mother at home,<br \/>\nAnd while I was with her I was maith go leor;<br \/>\nWhen the bullets did fly, lads, I did let them pass<br \/>\nI lay down in the ditch, awful feared to be shot.<\/p>\n<div class=\"n\u00f3ta\u00ed-bun-leathanaigh\">\n<h2 id=\"t:notai\">Notes<\/h2>\n<p>Like &#8216;The Glen of Aherlow,&#8217; &#8216;Mrs Mc Grath&#8217; and others, this is an anti-recruitment song, meant to discourage young men from falling for the blandishments of the recruiting sergeants and other officials tasked with enlisting recruits for Britain&#8217;s foreign wars.<\/p>\n<p>In this case, the Crimean War (1853&ndash;56), occurring as it did in the aftermath of the Irish Famine, attracted many impoverished young men whose only hope of earning a living was to take the King&#8217;s shilling.<\/p>\n<\/div>","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-476","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\/476","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=476"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1515,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476\/revisions\/1515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}