{"id":388,"date":"2015-10-06T14:06:12","date_gmt":"2015-10-06T13:06:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/ga\/cod-liver-oil-the\/"},"modified":"2015-10-06T15:50:36","modified_gmt":"2015-10-06T14:50:36","slug":"cod-liver-oil-the","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/ga\/cod-liver-oil-the\/","title":{"rendered":"Cod-Liver Oil, The"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 id=\"t:seinnteoirin1\">Play recording: Cod-Liver Oil, The<\/h2>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-388-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/00-micil\/me\u00e1in\/cod-liver-oil-the.mp3?_=1\" \/><source type=\"audio\/ogg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/00-micil\/me\u00e1in\/cod-liver-oil-the.ogg?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/00-micil\/me\u00e1in\/cod-liver-oil-the.mp3\">https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/00-micil\/me\u00e1in\/cod-liver-oil-the.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> Cod-Liver Oil, 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> 781513.<\/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> 4221.<\/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> 02\/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> 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> 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>&hellip;This is about&hellip; a man, and his wife was getting weaker and weaker as the days went by, and he said he couldn&#8217;t see her disappearing like that, because he was used to be fond of her at one time. So he said he would go to the doctor and get her a bottle to cure her. And that&#8217;s the biggest mistake he ever made, because the bottle she got, she thrived, she grew strong, she was, in a week&#8217;s time she was throwing him all over the place. And this is what the poor divil said:<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m a young married man, I am tired of me life<br \/>\nTen years I&#8217;ve been wed to a sickly wife<br \/>\nShe does nothing all day, only sit down and cry<br \/>\nWishing to God, oh, that she would die.<\/p>\n<p>A friend of me own came to see me one day<br \/>\nAnd he told me, me wife, she was pining away<br \/>\nHe afterwards told me that she would get strong<br \/>\nIf I bought her a bottle from young Doctor John.<\/p>\n<p>I got her a bottle, oh, just for to try<br \/>\nAnd the way that she drank it, you&#8217;d swear she was dry<br \/>\nI got her another, it vanished the same<br \/>\nAnd now she&#8217;s all cod-liver oil on her brain.<\/p>\n<p>She likes it so good now that there is no doubt<br \/>\nI own that my wife, she got terrible stout<br \/>\nAnd when she got stout, of course she got strong<br \/>\nAnd then I got jealous of dear Doctor John.<\/p>\n<p>Oh doctor, dear doctor, oh dear Doctor John<br \/>\nYour cod-liver oil is so pure and strong<br \/>\nI&#8217;m afraid that me life will go down in the soil<br \/>\nIf me wife don&#8217;t stop drinking your cod-liver oil.<\/p>\n<p>My house it resembles a big doctor&#8217;s shop<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s covered with bottles from bottom to top<br \/>\nAnd early in the morning when the kettle is boiled<br \/>\nYou&#8217;d swear it was singing out, &#8216;Cod-liver oil.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Oh doctor, oh doctor, oh dear Doctor John<br \/>\nYour cod-liver oil is so pure and so strong<br \/>\nI&#8217;m afraid that me life will go down in the soil<br \/>\nIf me wife don&#8217;t stop drinking your cod-liver oil.<\/p>","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-388","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\/388","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=388"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":757,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388\/revisions\/757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}