{"id":408,"date":"2015-10-06T14:06:13","date_gmt":"2015-10-06T13:06:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/ga\/banks-of-sweet-dundee-the\/"},"modified":"2016-01-25T08:40:03","modified_gmt":"2016-01-25T08:40:03","slug":"banks-of-sweet-dundee-the","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/ga\/banks-of-sweet-dundee-the\/","title":{"rendered":"Banks of Sweet Dundee, The"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 id=\"t:seinnteoirin1\">Play recording: Banks of Sweet Dundee, The<\/h2>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-408-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/00-micil\/me\u00e1in\/banks-of-sweet-dundee-the.mp3?_=1\" \/><source type=\"audio\/ogg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/00-micil\/me\u00e1in\/banks-of-sweet-dundee-the.ogg?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/00-micil\/me\u00e1in\/banks-of-sweet-dundee-the.mp3\">https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/00-micil\/me\u00e1in\/banks-of-sweet-dundee-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> Banks of Sweet Dundee, 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> 148.<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai\">Uimhir Laws <span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai-bearla\">(Laws Number)<\/span>:<\/span> M28.<\/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>Long ago, when a well-to-do farmer&#8217;s son, or a squire, or a lord, fancied a good-looking girl, usually they got their way, and the uncle or the father gave the girl away to the squires. But there&#8217;s an awful lot of songs about the girl who loved her plowboy.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s of a farmer&#8217;s daughter, so beautiful I&#8217;m told<br \/>\nHer parents died and left her a large amount of gold.<br \/>\nShe lived with her uncle, the cause of all her woe;<br \/>\nBut you soon shall hear how this maiden fair did prove his overthrow.<\/p>\n<p>Her uncle had a ploughboy young Mary loved quite well<br \/>\nAnd in her uncle&#8217;s garden their tales of love did tell.<br \/>\nThere was a wealthy squire who oft came her to see;<br \/>\nBut still she loved her ploughboy on the banks of sweet Dundee.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Twas on a Sunday morning her uncle went straightway<br \/>\nHe knocked on this maiden&#8217;s door, and this to her did say:<br \/>\n&#8216;Arise, arise, my lovely maid, a lady you can be<br \/>\nFor the squire is waiting for you on the banks of sweet Dundee.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I care not for your squires, your lords or dukes likewise<br \/>\nMy Willie he appears to me as diamonds in the sky.&#8217;<br \/>\n&#8216;Begone, unruly female, you ne&#8217;er shall happy be,<br \/>\nFor I will banish Willie from the banks of sweet Dundee.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>The press-gang came on Willie while he was all alone<br \/>\nHe bravely fought for liberty, but they were six-to-one<br \/>\nHis blood it flew in torrents, &#8216;Pray kill me now,&#8217; said he<br \/>\nFor I will die for Mary on the banks of sweet Dundee.<\/p>\n<p>As Mary was out walking, lamenting for her love,<br \/>\nShe met the wealthy squire down by her uncle&#8217;s grove<br \/>\nHe threw his arms around her, &#8216;Stand off, bad man,&#8217; says she<br \/>\n&#8216;For you sent the only lad I loved from the banks of sweet Dundee.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>He threw his arms around her and tried to throw her down<br \/>\nA pistol and a sword she spied beneath his evening gown<br \/>\nShe took the pistol from him, and the sword he used quite free<br \/>\nBut she did fire, and she shot the squire on the banks of sweet Dundee.<\/p>\n<p>Her uncle overheard the noise, and hastened to the ground.<br \/>\n&#8216;Since you have killed the squire I will give you your death-wound!&#8217;<br \/>\n&#8216;Stand off, bad man,&#8217; said Mary, &#8216;undaunted I&#8217;ll ne&#8217;er be!&#8217;<br \/>\nThe trigger she drew and her uncle slew on the banks of sweet Dundee.<\/p>\n<p>A doctor he was sent upon, a man of noted skill<br \/>\nAfter that, a lawyer, for her uncle to sign his will.<br \/>\nHe willed his gold to Mary, who fought so manfully<br \/>\nHe closed his eyes, no more to rise, on the banks of sweet Dundee.<\/p>\n<div class=\"n\u00f3ta\u00ed-bun-leathanaigh\">\n<h2 id=\"t:notai\">Notes<\/h2>\n<p>R\u00edonach N\u00ed Fhlaitheartaigh&#8217;s Cl\u00e1r Amhr\u00e1n Bhaile na hInse lists this song as having been recorded in 1942 by S\u00e9amas Ennis from an informant in Feenish Island (CB\u00c9 1280, 233-5), and a recording of it also exists in the collection housed in \u00c1ras Shorcha N\u00ed Ghuairim (Acadamh na hOllscola\u00edochta Gaeilge), Rois\u00edn na Mainiach, Carna.<br \/>\nOn this same occasion, Joe was reminded of another song to the same air; see The Squire of Edinburgh Town.<\/p>\n<p>This song was recorded while Joe Heaney was Artist-in-Residence at the University of Washington.<\/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-408","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\/408","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=408"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1373,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408\/revisions\/1373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}