{"id":573,"date":"2015-10-06T14:06:18","date_gmt":"2015-10-06T13:06:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/ga\/quare-bungle-eye-the\/"},"modified":"2016-01-25T14:21:52","modified_gmt":"2016-01-25T14:21:52","slug":"quare-bungle-eye-the","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/ga\/quare-bungle-eye-the\/","title":{"rendered":"Quare Bungle Eye, The"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 id=\"t:seinnteoirin1\">Play recording: Quare Bungle Eye, The<\/h2>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-573-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/00-micil\/me\u00e1in\/quare-bungle-eye-the.mp3?_=1\" \/><source type=\"audio\/ogg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/00-micil\/me\u00e1in\/quare-bungle-eye-the.ogg?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/00-micil\/me\u00e1in\/quare-bungle-eye-the.mp3\">https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/00-micil\/me\u00e1in\/quare-bungle-eye-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> Quare Bungle Eye, 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> 781505.<\/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> 2404.<\/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> Esther Warkov.<\/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> interview.<\/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>He was a sailor walking up and down the street, and he saw this girl on the corner with the basket. And she asked him to hold the basket while she went around to do something&hellip; whatever she was doing. And he held the basket, and she didn&#8217;t come back. And he looked into the basket, and there he saw a bundle of a baby in the basket. Right? I&#8217;m sorry, I forget all the words of this:<\/p>\n<p>Jack was a sailor who walked up to town<br \/>\nWhen a charming young damsel he happened to spy<br \/>\nShe was standing at a corner as he passed by<br \/>\n&#8216;Would you care for to purchase some quare bungle eye?&#8217;<br \/>\nRa-dee-dye, rye-dee-didle idle-ull, didle-ull-dye.<\/p>\n<p>Now, she handed him the basket and she went away, and when she wasn&#8217;t coming back, Jack looked into the basket:<\/p>\n<p>[Jack gave her a pound and he thought nothing strange<br \/>\nShe said, &#8216;Hold then the basket till I run for your change&#8217;]<br \/>\nJack looked into the basket and what did he spy<br \/>\nBut a charming young fellow, &#8217;twas Quare Bungle Eye.<br \/>\nRa-dee-dye, rye-dee-didle idle-ull, didle-ull-dye.<\/p>\n<p>Now to get the child christened was Jack&#8217;s intent<br \/>\nAnd to get the child christened to the parson he went<br \/>\n&#8216;What name will you call it?&#8217; the parson he cried<br \/>\n&#8216;Oh bejabers,&#8217; said Jack, &#8216;call him Quare Bungle Eye!&#8217;<br \/>\nRa-dee-dye, rye-dee-didle idle-ull, didle-ull-dye.<\/p>\n<p>Said the parson to Jack, &#8216;Now that&#8217;s a quare name&#8217;<br \/>\n&#8216;Oh by gods,&#8217; said Jack, &#8216;and the quare way he came<br \/>\nDressed up in a basket on a corner at night<br \/>\nAnd the name that he&#8217;ll go by is Quare Bungle Eye.&#8217;<br \/>\nRa-dee-dye, rye-dee-didle idle-ull, didle-ull-dye.<\/p>\n<p>[Now all you bold sailors who rove on the town<br \/>\nBeware of the damsels that skip up and down<br \/>\nTake a look in their baskets as they pass you by<br \/>\nOr else you&#8217;ll be sold some quare bungle eye.<br \/>\nRa-dee-dye, rye-dee-didle idle-ull, didle-ull-dye.]<\/p>\n<div class=\"n\u00f3ta\u00ed-bun-leathanaigh\">\n<h2 id=\"t:notai\">Notes<\/h2>\n<p>The lines in brackets have been supplied from a collection of lyrics assembled from materials in the Joe Heaney Collection; unfortunately the corresponding audiotape has gone missing.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Quare Bungle Rye&#8217; (the title takes various forms) was a popular item in the repertoires of both the Dubliners and the Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem. If it&#8217;s true that Joe learned the song at home, he may have been the source for these groups, as he was friendly with both of them.<\/p>\n<p>This song was recorded while Joe was Artist in Residence at University of Washington.<\/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-573","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\/573","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=573"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1603,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573\/revisions\/1603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}