{"id":428,"date":"2015-10-06T14:06:13","date_gmt":"2015-10-06T13:06:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/ga\/patsy-mc-cann\/"},"modified":"2016-01-25T14:03:43","modified_gmt":"2016-01-25T14:03:43","slug":"patsy-mc-cann","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/ga\/patsy-mc-cann\/","title":{"rendered":"Patsy Mc Cann"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 id=\"t:seinnteoirin1\">Play recording: Patsy Mc Cann<\/h2>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-428-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/00-micil\/me\u00e1in\/patsy-mc-cann.mp3?_=1\" \/><source type=\"audio\/ogg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/00-micil\/me\u00e1in\/patsy-mc-cann.ogg?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/00-micil\/me\u00e1in\/patsy-mc-cann.mp3\">https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/00-micil\/me\u00e1in\/patsy-mc-cann.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> Patsy Mc Cann.<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai\">Uimhir Chatal\u00f3ige Ollscoil Washington <span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai-bearla\">(University of Washington Catalogue Number)<\/span>:<\/span> 853908.<\/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> 13970.<\/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> Lucy Simpson.<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai\">D\u00e1ta an taifeadta <span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai-bearla\">(Recording Date)<\/span>:<\/span> 02\/01\/1980.<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai\">Su\u00edomh an taifeadta <span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai-bearla\">(Recording Location)<\/span>:<\/span> Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, New York, 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>It&#8217;s a song that, really, needs no explanation. And it wouldn&#8217;t be worthwhile explaining it anyway, because it&#8217;s a song explains itself. I&#8217;m only doing it to fill up the tape, you know!<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a man by the name of Mike Hogan, he&#8217;s plaguing me out of me life.<br \/>\nHe has a fine daughter named Bridget, and he wants me to make her me wife.<br \/>\nShe stands six-foot-four in her stockings, her waist would mine equal three,<br \/>\nAnd whenever I try for to kiss her, sure my elbows reach just to her knees.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Patsy McCann will you marry me daughter, oh, Patsy McCann if the girl you&#8217;ll wed,<br \/>\nTen golden sovereigns down I will give you, a three-legged stool and a fine feather bed.<br \/>\nSt Peter, St Paul and St Patrick are the picture that hangs on the wall.<br \/>\nI will throw them all in to the bargain if you&#8217;ll marry me daughter at all.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>So I married this old Bridget Hogan and she&#8217;s mine now for better or worse,<br \/>\nBut the blessings that she should have brought me soon turned into a curse.<br \/>\nShe kicks me, she bites me, she flays me, and she ties me lest I&#8217;d run away.<br \/>\nBut this six-foot-four beauty&#8217;s a caution, and her father was worse for to say&hellip;<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Now, Patsy McCann will you marry me daughter, oh, Patsy McCann if the girl you&#8217;ll wed,<br \/>\nTen golden sovereigns down I will give you, a three legged stool and a fine feather bed.<br \/>\nSt Peter, St Paul and St Patrick are the picture that hangs on the wall.<br \/>\nI will throw them all in to the bargain if you&#8217;ll marry my daughter at all.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>God forgive me for singing a song like that! Something to fill the tape up.<\/p>\n<div class=\"n\u00f3ta\u00ed-bun-leathanaigh\">\n<h2 id=\"t:notai\">Notes<\/h2>\n<p>Joe tells Lucy that he learned this song from hearing it sung in Dublin. He thought it was a funny song that would do to fill a gap &#8211; but he admits he never sings it in public, and only sang it on this occasion to fill the time on the tape.<\/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-428","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\/428","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=428"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1586,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428\/revisions\/1586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}