n\u00edl an taifead seo ar f\u00e1il faoi l\u00e1thair<\/p>\n
view \/ hide recording details [+\/-]<\/span><\/p>\n On the first day of April I shall not forget On Campbell the Rover they cast a sly eye They came to an inn where they made a full stop The tumblers of whisky they followed with wine Then the two English blades they slipped out one by one ‘Never mind them,’ says Campbell, ‘since they’re gone away ‘I’ll tell you a trick that’s contrary to law He bored him a hole in a very short space He mounted his horse and was soon out of sight Up on the counter they found Campbell had wrote: This recording was made for the BBC by Peter Kennedy (26311) can be heard on a Folktrax recording, Health to the Barley Mow: Songs of Good Company (FTX-025).<\/p>\n The transcription given here is from Peter Kennedy (ed.), Folksongs of Britain and Ireland, Oak Publications (1975), #269, p. 601.<\/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-389","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\/389","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=389"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1407,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389\/revisions\/1407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
\nWhen two English blades together they met
\nThey swore they’d play a trick on the first one they’d spy
\nWhen Campbell the Rover he chanced to ride by.
\nLaddie fol-de-ral laddie
\nLallie fol-de-ral-lee.<\/p>\n
\nThe mounted their horses and rode up alongside
\nThey saluted Campbell and he done the same
\nAnd in close conversation together they came.<\/p>\n
\nThey asked Campbell in for to have a small drop
\nCampbell consented and said with a smile
\n‘I long for a taste of this draught of sweet ale.’<\/p>\n
\nTwenty-five shillings it cost them a time
\nThere was more for the horses for oats and for hay
\nAnd they planned to leave Campbell the reckoning to pay.<\/p>\n
\nLeaving Campbell at the table to pay the whole sum
\nThen in came the landlord, to Campbell did say,
\n‘Your friends they are gone, the reckoning you’ll pay.’<\/p>\n
\nI have plenty of money the reckoning to pay.
\nSit down here beside me before I will go
\nI’ll tell you a trick that perhaps you don’t know.’<\/p>\n
\nThat two sorts of liquor from one punch I can draw’
\nThe landlord being eager to find out the plan
\nIt’s down to the lower cellar with Campbell he ran.<\/p>\n
\nHe then bored another in the very same place
\nHe said to the landlord, ‘Now place your hand there
\nTill I for tumbler will run up the stair.’<\/p>\n
\nThe servant came in to see if all was right
\nHe searched the whole house from top to the ground
\n‘Twas down in the lower cellar his master he found.<\/p>\n
\n‘You’re very well paid for the trick that I taught
\nFor the two kinds of liquor the reckoning I’ve paid –
\nI’ve left you two bullets for those two English blades.’<\/p>\nNotes<\/h2>\n