{"id":636,"date":"2015-10-06T14:06:20","date_gmt":"2015-10-06T13:06:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/en\/lord-gregory\/"},"modified":"2016-01-25T12:32:20","modified_gmt":"2016-01-25T12:32:20","slug":"lord-gregory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/en\/lord-gregory\/","title":{"rendered":"Lord Gregory"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 id=\"t:seinnteoirin1\">Play recording: Lord Gregory<\/h2>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-636-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/00-micil\/me\u00e1in\/lord-gregory.mp3?_=1\" \/><source type=\"audio\/ogg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/00-micil\/me\u00e1in\/lord-gregory.ogg?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/00-micil\/me\u00e1in\/lord-gregory.mp3\">https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/00-micil\/me\u00e1in\/lord-gregory.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> Lord Gregory.<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai\">Uimhir Chatal\u00f3ige Ollscoil Washington <span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai-bearla\">(University of Washington Catalogue Number)<\/span>:<\/span> 781515.<\/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> 49.<\/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> 76.<\/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> Cynthia Thiessen.<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai\">D\u00e1ta an taifeadta <span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai-bearla\">(Recording Date)<\/span>:<\/span> 06\/03\/1978.<\/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> day 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> Fredric Lieberman.<\/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 girl from Cappoquin &#8211; Cappoquin was the seat of the kings one time, Waterford &#8211; and this was a king&#8217;s daughter that got into trouble with Lord Gregory. In fact, she had a baby and she was carrying the baby around with her. And she went to Lord Gregory&#8217;s house, and he was asleep, and the mother &#8211; the mother behind the door &#8211; was answering the girl. And she told the girl that Lord Gregory wasn&#8217;t home; and when Lord Gregory woke up and found the girl was there &#8211; because the girl was after going down to the sea and committing suicide, drowning herself &#8211; he cursed his mother for not waking him up&hellip;<\/p>\n<p>I am a king&#8217;s daughter who strayed from Cappoquin<br \/>\nIn search of Lord Gregory, pray God I find him<br \/>\nThe rain beats at my yellow locks, the dew wets my skin<br \/>\nMy babe is cold in my arms. Lord Gregory, let me in!<\/p>\n<p>Lord Gregory is not home my love, and still can&#8217;t be seen<br \/>\nHe&#8217;s gone to bonnie Scotland to bring home his new queen<br \/>\nSo leave you these windows and likewise this hall<br \/>\nFor it&#8217;s deep in the ocean you should hide your downfall.<\/p>\n<p>Who&#8217;ll shoe my babe&#8217;s little feet, who&#8217;ll put gloves on her hand?<br \/>\nAnd who&#8217;ll tie my babe&#8217;s middle with a long and green band?<br \/>\nWho&#8217;ll comb my babe&#8217;s yellow locks with an ivory comb?<br \/>\nAnd who&#8217;ll be my babe&#8217;s father till Lord Gregory comes home?<\/p>\n<p>I will shoe your babe&#8217;s little feet, I&#8217;ll put gloves on her hand<br \/>\nAnd I&#8217;ll tie your babe&#8217;s middle with a long and green band<br \/>\nI will comb your babe&#8217;s yellow locks with an ivory comb<br \/>\nAnd I&#8217;ll be your babe&#8217;s father till Lord Gregory comes home.<\/p>\n<p>But leave you these windows and likewise this hall<br \/>\nFor it&#8217;s deep in the ocean you must hide your downfall.<br \/>\nTill I find the lass of Aughrim and sleep by her side.<\/p>\n<p>I am a king&#8217;s daughter who strayed from Cappoquin<br \/>\nIn search of Lord Gregory, pray God I find him<br \/>\nThe rain beats at my yellow locks, the dew wets my skin<br \/>\nMy babe is cold in my arms. Lord Gregory, let me in!<\/p>\n<p>Lord Gregory is not home my love, and still can&#8217;t be seen<br \/>\nHe&#8217;s gone to bonnie Scotland to bring home his new queen<br \/>\nSo leave you these windows and likewise this hall<br \/>\nFor it&#8217;s deep in the ocean you should hide your downfall.<\/p>\n<p>Who&#8217;ll shoe my babe&#8217;s little feet, who&#8217;ll put gloves on her hand?<br \/>\nAnd who&#8217;ll tie my babe&#8217;s middle with a long and green band?<br \/>\nWho&#8217;ll comb my babe&#8217;s yellow locks with an ivory comb?<br \/>\nAnd who&#8217;ll be my babe&#8217;s father till Lord Gregory comes home?<\/p>\n<p>I will shoe your babe&#8217;s little feet, I&#8217;ll put gloves on her hand<br \/>\nAnd I&#8217;ll tie your babe&#8217;s middle with a long and green band<br \/>\nI will comb your babe&#8217;s yellow locks with an ivory comb<br \/>\nAnd I&#8217;ll be your babe&#8217;s father till Lord Gregory comes home.<\/p>\n<p>But leave you these windows and likewise this hall<br \/>\nFor it&#8217;s deep in the ocean you must hide your downfall.<br \/>\nSo don&#8217;t leave you these windows, don&#8217;t leave this hall<br \/>\nFor it&#8217;s d-<\/p>\n<p>Oh now. Well, that&#8217;s it anyway. Ah, there&#8217;s only another line somewhere<sup class=\"tagairt-n\u00f3ta-bun-leathanaigh\">1<\/sup>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"n\u00f3ta\u00ed-bun-leathanaigh\">\n<h2 id=\"t:notai\">Notes<\/h2>\n<p class=\"n\u00f3ta-bun-leathanaigh\">1. All of the other recordings in the collection&nbsp;&mdash; or on commercial recordings from Joe&nbsp;&mdash; end with the last two lines precisely as they are elsewhere in the song. It&#8217;s hard to imagine why Joe tried to change them here.<\/p>\n<p>Of the Child Ballads collected in Ireland, this one appears to have been particularly popular in Conamara. Unlike <cite class=\"amhr\u00e1n\">An Tiarna Randal<\/cite>, however, it was never translated into Irish, but was sung only in English. Joe told Lucy Simpson that he heard it from a number of people growing up, including his father and his second cousin, Colm Keane.<\/p>\n<p>This was recorded while Joe was Artist in Residence at University of Washington.<\/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-636","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\/636","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=636"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1525,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636\/revisions\/1525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}