{"id":542,"date":"2015-10-06T14:06:17","date_gmt":"2015-10-06T13:06:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/ga\/boys-from-home\/"},"modified":"2021-03-30T09:59:46","modified_gmt":"2021-03-30T08:59:46","slug":"boys-from-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/ga\/boys-from-home\/","title":{"rendered":"Boys, From Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 id=\"t:seinnteoirin1\">Play recording: Boys, From Home<\/h2>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-542-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/00-micil\/me\u00e1in\/boys-from-home.mp3?_=1\" \/><source type=\"audio\/ogg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/00-micil\/me\u00e1in\/boys-from-home.ogg?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/00-micil\/me\u00e1in\/boys-from-home.mp3\">https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/00-micil\/me\u00e1in\/boys-from-home.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> Boys, From Home.<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai\">Uimhir Chatal\u00f3ige Ollscoil Washington <span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai-bearla\">(University of Washington Catalogue Number)<\/span>:<\/span> 853915.<\/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> 34589.<\/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> 17\/06\/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>JH: \u2026If the person leaving home couldn&#8217;t sing, you see, someone sang it for him, you see, putting themself in the fellow&#8217;s place who was going away. You get me? \u2026&#8217;The last night of my stay, e&#8217;er I ramble far away to seek my fortune on a foreign shore.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>LS: Who do you remember singing this one?<\/p>\n<p>JH: Oh, they all- Everybody in the parish of Carna sang this one. Everybody had it, you know. &#8216;Seek my fortune on a foreign shore. But before I go away, tonight I will be gay, for tomorrow I&#8217;ll be far away from home, boys, from home, tomorrow I&#8217;ll be far away from home.&#8217; Everybody had this, you know, this is a song that was widely sung &#8211; even somebody going to England, but especially to &#8216;Amerikay&#8217; as they said. This fellow in particular was going to America.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s the last night of my stay, e&#8217;er I ramble far away<br \/>\nTo seek my fortune on a foreign shore<br \/>\nBefore I go away, tonight I will be gay,<br \/>\nTomorrow I&#8217;ll be far away from home, boys, from home<br \/>\nTomorrow I&#8217;ll be far away from home.<\/p>\n<p>To a strange and distant land with an honest heart and hand<br \/>\nStrange destiny obliges me to roam<br \/>\nCome joy, weal or woe, no matter where I go<br \/>\nI&#8217;ll never forget the dear old friends at home, boys, from home<br \/>\nI&#8217;ll never forget the dear old friends at home.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s to my youthful joys, to my country girls and boys<br \/>\nTo every Irish heart that I adore<br \/>\nOn America&#8217;s sunny shore there is wealth for me galore,<br \/>\nThe time is fast approaching, I must go, boys, from home<br \/>\nThe time is fast approaching, I must go.<\/p>\n<p>They say the American land is both wealthy, gay and grand<br \/>\nWith virtues and great riches shining o&#8217;er<br \/>\nBut if every grain of sand was a diamond in that land<br \/>\nI&#8217;d still love dear old Ireland more and more, boys, from home<br \/>\nI would still love dear old Ireland more and more.<\/p>\n<p>Here is to the friends I leave in the village of Ardee<br \/>\nMay the stars of freedom on them shine!<br \/>\nBut if God on his high throne will give Ireland back her own<br \/>\nWe&#8217;d hunt the bloody Saxons from our shore, boys, from home<br \/>\nWe&#8217;d hunt the bloody Saxons from our shore.<\/p>\n<p>JH: That&#8217;s it. Do you like it?<\/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 &#8211; &#8216;everyone in the village had it.&#8217; Indeed, at least one other Carna singer has it to this day; Josie She\u00e1in Jeaic Mac Donncha, from \u00c1rd Thiar, has been known to sing it from time to time.<\/p>\n<p>In the free-and-easy fashion of tunes everywhere, the air of this song has spread itself about without regard to political sensibilities: it is clearly related to the air associated with that well-known anthem of Northern Irish loyalism, &#8216;The Brave Orange Heroes of Comber.&#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-542","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\/542","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=542"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3601,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542\/revisions\/3601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}