{"id":1109,"date":"2016-01-17T07:24:10","date_gmt":"2016-01-17T07:24:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/ga\/?p=1109"},"modified":"2018-07-27T08:20:11","modified_gmt":"2018-07-27T07:20:11","slug":"babes-in-the-wood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/ga\/babes-in-the-wood\/","title":{"rendered":"Babes in the Wood"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 id=\"t:seinnteoirin1\">Play recording: Babes in the Wood<\/h2>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-1109-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/00-micil\/me\u00e1in\/babes-in-the-wood.mp3?_=1\" \/><source type=\"audio\/ogg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/00-micil\/me\u00e1in\/babes-in-the-wood.ogg?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/00-micil\/me\u00e1in\/babes-in-the-wood.mp3\">https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/00-micil\/me\u00e1in\/babes-in-the-wood.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> Babes in the Wood.<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai\">Uimhir Chatal\u00f3ige Ollscoil Washington <span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai-bearla\">(University of Washington Catalogue Number)<\/span>:<\/span> 843901.<\/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> 288.<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai\">Uimhir Laws <span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai-bearla\">(Laws Number)<\/span>:<\/span> Q34.<\/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> Jill Linzee.<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai\">D\u00e1ta an taifeadta <span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai-bearla\">(Recording Date)<\/span>:<\/span> between 1982 and 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> 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>Now, this is an old folktale, very old, and very sad too. And it&#8217;s about two little bab &mdash; two little children&hellip; the boy was eight years of old, and the girl was seven. And they were very happy living with their parents, much loved by their parents, well-to-do parents, too. And the parents died within one week of one another when the children were that young, eight and seven. And the children was taken into the care of their uncle. And because he got a bit greedy and he wanted the estate of the children to himself, he decided to do away with the children. And he hired two bad men to take the children away and to kill them. And the two bad men took the children with them, promising the children they were going to take them to a fair and treat them very well.<\/p>\n<p>And they took them into a wood. And while they were walking through the wood, the little girl was holding one of the bad men&#8217;s hand and she was telling him, &#8220;you&#8217;re such a nice man, taking us to the fair and buying us this and that&#8221;. And whatever she said turned &mdash; melted the heart of the man who was taking her into the wood. And when the time came to dispose of the two children, this man wouldn&#8217;t let the other man kill them. So they both started fighting one another, and the good man killed the other man. But when he was &mdash; after that, the children had disappeared and got lost in the wood. And all that night they were running up and down in the wood, crying and crying, and finally they lay down. And &#8217;twas a very cold, bitter time of the year, and before night was out, they both died under the tree. And the little robin redbreast came and started covering them over with leaves. And this is the song:<\/p>\n<p>My dears don&#8217;t you know<br \/>\nHow a long time ago<br \/>\nTwo poor little children, their names we don&#8217;t know<br \/>\nWere taken away<br \/>\nOn a fine summer day<br \/>\nAnd left in a wood, so we heard people say.<\/p>\n<p>And when it was night<br \/>\nSo sad was their plight<br \/>\nThe sun had gone down and the moon gave no light;<br \/>\nThey sobbed and they sighed<br \/>\nAnd they bitterly cried<br \/>\nThe poor little infants, they lay down and died.<\/p>\n<p>When they were dead<br \/>\nThe robin redbreast<br \/>\nBrought strawberry leaves and over them spread;<br \/>\nAnd all the night long<br \/>\nIt sang a sad song<br \/>\nPoor babes in the wood, poor babes in the wood.<br \/>\nAnd always remember the babes in the wood.<\/p>\n<div class=\"n\u00f3ta\u00ed-bun-leathanaigh\">\n<h2 id=\"t:notai\">Notes<\/h2>\n<p>This venerable English tale, which contains elements of the <cite>Hansel and Gretel<\/cite> story, has been recorded throughout the English-speaking world. It has provided the basis for pantomime productions and even a film by Disney.<\/p>\n<p>Joe doesn&#8217;t say where he learned it.<\/p>\n<p>For a good native English rendition, see <a href=\"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/ga\/babes-in-the-wood-magpie-lane\/\">Magpie Lane&#8217;s version<\/a> of this song<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"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-1109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-amhrain","category-amhrain-i-mbearla"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1109"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1109\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2166,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1109\/revisions\/2166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}