{"id":643,"date":"2015-10-06T14:06:20","date_gmt":"2015-10-06T13:06:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/en\/jolly-tinker-the\/"},"modified":"2016-01-25T12:15:52","modified_gmt":"2016-01-25T12:15:52","slug":"jolly-tinker-the","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/en\/jolly-tinker-the\/","title":{"rendered":"Jolly Tinker, The"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 id=\"t:seinnteoirin1\">Play recording: Jolly Tinker, The<\/h2>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-643-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/00-micil\/me\u00e1in\/jolly-tinker-the.mp3?_=1\" \/><source type=\"audio\/ogg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/00-micil\/me\u00e1in\/jolly-tinker-the.ogg?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/00-micil\/me\u00e1in\/jolly-tinker-the.mp3\">https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/00-micil\/me\u00e1in\/jolly-tinker-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> Jolly Tinker, 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> 781516.<\/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> 863.<\/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> Cynthia Thiessen.<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai\">D\u00e1ta an taifeadta <span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai-bearla\">(Recording Date)<\/span>:<\/span> 07\/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>Now you see, with these songs, you never sing songs like this when children are around. So I don&#8217;t think&hellip; There&#8217;s a clan goes around the roads in Ireland called the tinkers. And, it comes from the word &#8216;tin-smith&#8217;. Now, if you put them into a house, they won&#8217;t stay there, they want the open air all the time. And they&#8217;re great for fixing pots with holes in them or anything like that, especially if the holes are rusty. And this is the story of one of them tinkers, as he was making his way around. And this is the way he told it himself:<\/p>\n<p>While walking down the shady lane on a door I chanced to knock<br \/>\n&#8216;Have you any rusty pots and pans with dirty holes to block?&#8217;<br \/>\nOh, indeed I have, don&#8217;t you know I have<br \/>\nTo me rye-ful dooral daddy, oh indeed I have.<\/p>\n<p>The missus she came to the door and she asked me to come in<br \/>\n&#8216;You&#8217;re welcome, jolly tinker, and I hope you brought your tins&#8217;<br \/>\nOh, indeed I did, don&#8217;t you know I did<br \/>\nTo me rye-ful dooral daddy, oh indeed I did.<\/p>\n<p>She took me up the wooden stairs to show me what to do<br \/>\nShe fell on the feathery bed and I fell on it too<br \/>\nOh, indeed I did, don&#8217;t you know I did,<br \/>\nTo me rye-ful dooral daddy, oh indeed I did.<\/p>\n<p>She put her hand into her pocket and she pulled up a gold watch<br \/>\n&#8216;Take this me jolly tinker, for bejabers you&#8217;re no botch!&#8217;<br \/>\nOh, indeed you&#8217;re not, don&#8217;t you know you&#8217;re not.<br \/>\nTo me rye-ful dooral daddy, oh indeed you&#8217;re not.<\/p>\n<p>She lifted up the frying pan and she began to knock<br \/>\nTo let the servants know, me lads, that I was on the job<br \/>\nOh, indeed she did, don&#8217;t you know she did<br \/>\nTo me rye-ful dooral daddy, oh indeed she did.<\/p>\n<p>She put her hand into her pocket and she pulled up twenty pounds<br \/>\n&#8216;Take this my jolly tinker, and we&#8217;ll have another round!&#8217;<br \/>\nOh, indeed we will, don&#8217;t you know we will<br \/>\nTo me rye-ful dooral daddy, oh indeed we will.<\/p>\n<p>Now, I&#8217;ve been a jolly tinker for forty years or more,<br \/>\nBut such a rusty hole as that I never did it before<br \/>\nOh indeed I didn&#8217;t, don&#8217;t you know I didn&#8217;t,<br \/>\nTo me rye-ful dooral daddy, oh indeed I didn&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p>Now, unless your mind is working overtime, you&#8217;ll think that&#8217;s a purely clean song, wouldn&#8217;t you?<\/p>\n<div class=\"n\u00f3ta\u00ed-bun-leathanaigh\">\n<h2 id=\"t:notai\">Notes<\/h2>\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-643","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\/643","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=643"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1512,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643\/revisions\/1512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}