{"id":510,"date":"2015-10-06T14:06:16","date_gmt":"2015-10-06T13:06:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/ga\/rocking-the-cradle-that-nobody-owns\/"},"modified":"2016-01-25T14:30:28","modified_gmt":"2016-01-25T14:30:28","slug":"rocking-the-cradle-that-nobody-owns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/ga\/rocking-the-cradle-that-nobody-owns\/","title":{"rendered":"Rocking the Cradle that Nobody Owns"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 id=\"t:seinnteoirin1\">Play recording: Rocking the Cradle that Nobody Owns<\/h2>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-510-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/00-micil\/me\u00e1in\/rocking-the-cradle-that-nobody-owns.mp3?_=1\" \/><source type=\"audio\/ogg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/00-micil\/me\u00e1in\/rocking-the-cradle-that-nobody-owns.ogg?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/00-micil\/me\u00e1in\/rocking-the-cradle-that-nobody-owns.mp3\">https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/00-micil\/me\u00e1in\/rocking-the-cradle-that-nobody-owns.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> Rocking the Cradle that Nobody Owns.<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai\">Uimhir Chatal\u00f3ige Ollscoil Washington <span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai-bearla\">(University of Washington Catalogue Number)<\/span>:<\/span> none.<\/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> 357.<\/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> George MacIntyre.<\/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> George Mac Intyre.<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai\">D\u00e1ta an taifeadta <span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai-bearla\">(Recording Date)<\/span>:<\/span> 1964 &#8211; 1965.<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai\">Su\u00edomh an taifeadta <span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai-bearla\">(Recording Location)<\/span>:<\/span> Clydebank, Scotland.<\/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>Now you&#8217;re getting onto something now! Of course I sure that there&#8217;s many men wheeling a pram, too, that maybe doesn&#8217;t own what&#8217;s inside the pram, you know. And at the time I&#8217;m talking about, there was no prams, there was only cradles. And it&#8217;s something like the old man with no faloorum. He knew there was somebody else taking a bit out of his cake! And he was left to rock the cradle, you see. And you know when an old man is rocking the cradle, and he&#8217;s watching the door, and his wife is out jumping around &#8211; that&#8217;s an awful dose, that. The small fellow in the cradle couldn&#8217;t care two hoots &#8211; he&#8217;d be doing the same thing himself when he grows up.<sup class=\"tagairt-n\u00f3ta-bun-leathanaigh\">1<\/sup><\/p>\n<p>I am an old man, I&#8217;m rocking the cradle<br \/>\nRocking the cradle that nobody owns.<br \/>\nI&#8217;m here all alone, I&#8217;m rocking the cradle,<br \/>\nRocking the baby that&#8217;s never my own.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, hush, hush, hushaby baby<br \/>\nPerhaps your own daddy you never will know!<br \/>\nI&#8217;m here all alone, I&#8217;m rocking the cradle<br \/>\nRocking the cradle that nobody owns.<\/p>\n<p>My wife is a flirt who married for money,<br \/>\nShe stays out all night until the cock crows.<br \/>\nTake warning, dear Harry, if you ever marry,<br \/>\nBe sure that the cradle you rock is your own.<\/p>\n<p>Hushaby lu, hushaby baby,<br \/>\nPerhaps your own daddy you never will know.<br \/>\nI&#8217;m here all alone, rocking the cradle,<br \/>\nRocking the baby that&#8217;s never me own.<\/p>\n<div class=\"n\u00f3ta\u00ed-bun-leathanaigh\">\n<h2 id=\"t:notai\">Notes<\/h2>\n<p class=\"n\u00f3ta-bun-leathanaigh\">1. Audio for this passage is not currently provided, as the recording quality is very poor, and the song that follows is fragmentary.<\/p>\n<p>In his comprehensive review of the CD The Road from Conamara (2000), the late Tom Munnelly <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mustrad.org.uk\/reviews\/j_heaney.htm\">observed<\/a> that &#8216;there were a number of versions [of this song] being sung around folk clubs at the time of this recording. Hazarding a guess, I would think it likely he got it from S\u00e9amus Ennis (who got it from Johnny Doherty). Whatever his source, he has made the song his own. The pensive delivery conjures up a vivid word picture of a side of cuckoldry which is light years away from the ribald ballads often associated with the subject&#8217; .<\/p>\n<p>The air to this song is the same as that of another lullaby Joe recorded, &#8216;Seoith\u00edn Seo-h\u00f3.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>We are greatful to Geordie Mac&nbsp;Intyre, for permission to include this item.<\/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-510","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\/510","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=510"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1612,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510\/revisions\/1612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}