{"id":426,"date":"2015-10-06T14:06:13","date_gmt":"2015-10-06T13:06:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/ga\/wild-colonial-boy-the\/"},"modified":"2016-01-25T16:10:28","modified_gmt":"2016-01-25T16:10:28","slug":"wild-colonial-boy-the","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/ga\/wild-colonial-boy-the\/","title":{"rendered":"Wild Colonial Boy, The"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 id=\"t:seinnteoirin1\">Play recording: Wild Colonial Boy, The<\/h2>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-426-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/00-micil\/me\u00e1in\/wild-colonial-boy-the.mp3?_=1\" \/><source type=\"audio\/ogg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/00-micil\/me\u00e1in\/wild-colonial-boy-the.ogg?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/00-micil\/me\u00e1in\/wild-colonial-boy-the.mp3\">https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/00-micil\/me\u00e1in\/wild-colonial-boy-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> Wild Colonial Boy, 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> 850110.<\/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> 677.<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai\">Uimhir Laws <span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai-bearla\">(Laws Number)<\/span>:<\/span> L20.<\/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> James Cowdery.<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai\">D\u00e1ta an taifeadta <span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai-bearla\">(Recording Date)<\/span>:<\/span> between 1979 and 1981.<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai\">Su\u00edomh an taifeadta <span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai-bearla\">(Recording Location)<\/span>:<\/span> Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut, 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>There was a wild colonial boy, Jack Duggan was his name<br \/>\nHe was bred and born in Ireland, in a place called Castlemaine<br \/>\nHe was his father&#8217;s only son, his mother&#8217;s pride and joy<br \/>\nAnd dearly did his parents love the wild colonial boy.<\/p>\n<p>At the youthful age of sixteen years he began his wild career<br \/>\nWith a heart that knew no terror and a spirit that knew no fear<br \/>\nHe robbed a wealthy squire, all arms(?) he did destroy<br \/>\nA terror to his parents was the wild colonial boy.<\/p>\n<p>At the early age of eighteen years he left his native home<br \/>\nAnd to Australia&#8217;s sunny lands he was inclined to roam<br \/>\nHe robbed the rich, and helped the poor; he shot James McEvoy<br \/>\nA terror to Australia was the wild colonial boy.<\/p>\n<p>One day upon a prairie, as Jack he rode along<br \/>\nListening to the mockingbirds singing their pleasant song<br \/>\nOut sprang three armed troopers &#8211; Kelly, Davis and Fitzroy<br \/>\nThey all set out to capture him, the wild colonial boy.<\/p>\n<p>Now, I&#8217;ve made a mistake there, now. I left out one verse, you know. And this verse I&#8217;m going to sing now, before the last verse.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Surrender now, Jack Duggan, we are three to one<br \/>\nSurrender in the Queen&#8217;s own name, you are a plundering son!&#8217;<br \/>\nJack drew two pistols from his breast, and loudly cried on high,<br \/>\n&#8216;I&#8217;ll fight but not surrender!&#8217; said the wild colonial boy.<\/p>\n<p>He fired a shot at Kelly that brought him to the ground<br \/>\nTurning then to Davis, he gave him his fatal wound;<br \/>\nBut a bullet pierced his brave young heart from the pistol of Fitzroy<br \/>\nAnd that is how they captured him, the wild colonial boy.<\/p>\n<p>I knew I was missing something there, you know. It&#8217;s only when I started singing it I found out.<\/p>\n<div class=\"n\u00f3ta\u00ed-bun-leathanaigh\">\n<h2 id=\"t:notai\">Notes<\/h2>\n<p>It&#8217;s hard to imagine what Joe thought he was doing wrong, for all the verses are in the correct narrative order as he sang them.<\/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-426","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\/426","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=426"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1689,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426\/revisions\/1689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}