{"id":521,"date":"2015-10-06T14:06:16","date_gmt":"2015-10-06T13:06:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/ga\/going-to-mass-last-sunday\/"},"modified":"2016-01-25T11:36:28","modified_gmt":"2016-01-25T11:36:28","slug":"going-to-mass-last-sunday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/ga\/going-to-mass-last-sunday\/","title":{"rendered":"Going to Mass Last Sunday"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 id=\"t:seinnteoirin1\">Play recording: Going to Mass Last Sunday<\/h2>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-521-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/00-micil\/me\u00e1in\/going-to-mass-last-sunday.mp3?_=1\" \/><source type=\"audio\/ogg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/00-micil\/me\u00e1in\/going-to-mass-last-sunday.ogg?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/00-micil\/me\u00e1in\/going-to-mass-last-sunday.mp3\">https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/00-micil\/me\u00e1in\/going-to-mass-last-sunday.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> Going to Mass Last Sunday.<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai\">Uimhir Chatal\u00f3ige Ollscoil Washington <span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai-bearla\">(University of Washington Catalogue Number)<\/span>:<\/span> 853904.<\/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> 454.<\/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> 11\/09\/1979.<\/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>&#8216;I&#8217;m going to do a song called &#8216;Going to Mass Last Sunday.&#8217; I haven&#8217;t a clue why it&#8217;s called that name, but that&#8217;s the name I heard it called. That&#8217;s the name I&#8217;m going to give it until somebody else&hellip; gives it a better name, or tells [me] the reason why it should have a different name. It&#8217;s&hellip; nice little love song, that wasn&#8217;t so loveable at the end &#8211; they had to part.<\/p>\n<p>And courting is a pleasure between my love and I<br \/>\nAnd it&#8217;s down in yonder valley I will meet her by-and-by<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s down in yonder valley she is my heart&#8217;s delight<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s with you, lovely Molly, I&#8217;d spend to the broad daylight.<\/p>\n<p>While going to Mass last Sunday, my love she passed me by<br \/>\nI knew her mind was altered by the rolling of her eyes<br \/>\nI knew her mind was altered to a lad of a higher degree<br \/>\nOh, Molly, lovely Molly, your looks are haunting me.<\/p>\n<p>I put my hand into my pocket, and a bottle I pulled out<br \/>\n&#8216;Drink this, my lovely Molly &#8211; our courtship is at its height&#8217;<br \/>\nShe said, &#8216;Drink you of the top; leave the bottom unto me,<br \/>\nFor there&#8217;s money made and wagers laid that married we&#8217;ll never be.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Farewell to all my loyal friends, likewise to sweet Bann shore<br \/>\nFarewell unto the lovely hills I&#8217;ll never see no more<br \/>\nAmericay lies far away, the place I&#8217;ll go and see<br \/>\nFor blessed is she &#8211; and cursed are they that parted my love and me.<\/p>\n<p>Now if you should meet a dark-haired girl with a blue and rolling eye<br \/>\nJust take her in your arms &#8211; don&#8217;t tell her the reason why<br \/>\nJust take her in your arms &#8217;til you cause her heart to yield<br \/>\nFor a faint-hearted soldier never won on a battle-field.<\/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 at home. When he recorded it for Lucy in 1979, he said that he hadn&#8217;t sung it in years. When he went to the University of Washington, however, it became a staple of his teaching repertoire, and the Joe Heaney Collection contains a number of recordings where Joe is leading a large room-full of people through the song in chorus.<\/p>\n<p>The song is clearly of northern origin, if the reference to the river Bann is to be believed. It is included, to the same air, in Peter Kennedy&#8217;s Folksongs of Britain and Ireland, and Kennedy lists a number of early recordings made from Belfast singers in the 1950&#8217;s. Two versions were published by Sam Henry in The Northern Constitution as &#8216;Dark-Eyed Molly&#8217; (H625) and &#8216;Farewell Ballymoney&#8217; (H615); see Huntington et al., Sam Henry&#8217;s Songs of the People, pp 342-3. A number of versions have also been collected in the United States and Canada, presumably brought there by Ulster settlers. Other titles include &#8216;Loving Hannah&#8217;, &#8216;Charming Molly,&#8217; &#8216;Black-Eyed Mary,&#8217; and &#8216;Meeting is a Pleasure.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>On another occasion, Joe discusses uses the first two stanzas of this song as the basis for a discussion of ornamentation with Jim Cowdery. He also says that, but for Jim calling his attention to the song, he would only have known the first two verses of it &#8211; suggesting that Jim may have supplied a fuller text to Joe to supplement what he may have learnt at home.<\/p>\n<p>Air: &#8216;The Lowlands of Holland&#8217;.<\/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-521","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\/521","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=521"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1483,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521\/revisions\/1483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}