{"id":517,"date":"2015-10-06T14:06:16","date_gmt":"2015-10-06T13:06:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/ga\/wild-rover-the\/"},"modified":"2017-09-08T17:29:05","modified_gmt":"2017-09-08T16:29:05","slug":"wild-rover-the","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/ga\/wild-rover-the\/","title":{"rendered":"Wild Rover, The"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 id=\"t:seinnteoirin1\">Play recording: Wild Rover, The<\/h2>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-517-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/00-micil\/me\u00e1in\/wild-rover-the.mp3?_=1\" \/><source type=\"audio\/ogg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/00-micil\/me\u00e1in\/wild-rover-the.ogg?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/00-micil\/me\u00e1in\/wild-rover-the.mp3\">https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/00-micil\/me\u00e1in\/wild-rover-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 Rover, 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> 1173.<\/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> 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>Now, &#8216;I&#8217;m a Rambler, I&#8217;m a Gambler, I&#8217;m a Long Way from Home&#8217; &#8211; now, exactly the same words is in that as in &#8216;The Wild Rover&#8217;. And I think the American thing was first.<\/p>\n<p>[recites]<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m a rambler, I&#8217;m a gambler, I&#8217;m a long way from home<br \/>\nAnd if you don&#8217;t like me, oh leave me alone.<br \/>\nI&#8217;ll eat when I&#8217;m hungry, I&#8217;ll drink when I&#8217;m dry<br \/>\nAnd if moonshine don&#8217;t kill me, I&#8217;ll drink &#8217;til I die.<\/p>\n<p>This is the way you do now:<br \/>\n[sings verse above]<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I came into an alehouse&#8217; and [indistinct] &#8216;The Wild Rover&#8217; then:<br \/>\nI&#8217;ve been a wild rover for manys a year<br \/>\nAnd I spent all me money on whiskey and beer<br \/>\nBut I&#8217;ll give it over, put me money in store<br \/>\nAnd I&#8217;ll never be called the wild rover no more<br \/>\nAnd its oh, nay, never<br \/>\nWell I never no more<br \/>\nSure, I&#8217;ll play the wild rover, no, never, no more<\/p>\n<p>Well you know the rest of it. Well, the comparisons you know &#8211; that somebody took something somewhere, and somebody took something back.<\/p>\n<div class=\"n\u00f3ta\u00ed-bun-leathanaigh\">\n<h2 id=\"t:notai\">Notes<\/h2>\n<p class=\"n\u00f3ta-bun-leathanaigh\">In this seminar, Joe and Mike Seeger were presenting and comparing Irish versions of songs with American ones, and Joe drew this comparison between the American song, &#8216;I&#8217;m a Rambler, I&#8217;m a Gambler&#8217; and &#8216;The Wild Rover,&#8217; a song that became very popular as a consequence of the &#8216;ballad boom&#8217; in Ireland and the influence of groups like the Dubliners and the Clancy Brothers.<\/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-517","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\/517","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=517"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2032,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517\/revisions\/2032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}