{"id":598,"date":"2015-10-06T14:06:19","date_gmt":"2015-10-06T13:06:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/ga\/wife-of-the-bold-tenant-farmer-the\/"},"modified":"2016-01-25T16:09:54","modified_gmt":"2016-01-25T16:09:54","slug":"wife-of-the-bold-tenant-farmer-the","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/ga\/wife-of-the-bold-tenant-farmer-the\/","title":{"rendered":"Wife of the Bold Tenant Farmer, The"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 id=\"t:seinnteoirin1\">Play recording: Wife of the Bold Tenant Farmer, The<\/h2>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-598-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/00-micil\/me\u00e1in\/wife-of-the-bold-tenant-farmer-the.mp3?_=1\" \/><source type=\"audio\/ogg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/00-micil\/me\u00e1in\/wife-of-the-bold-tenant-farmer-the.ogg?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/00-micil\/me\u00e1in\/wife-of-the-bold-tenant-farmer-the.mp3\">https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/00-micil\/me\u00e1in\/wife-of-the-bold-tenant-farmer-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> Wife of the Bold Tenant Farmer, 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> 841401.<\/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> 5164.<\/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> Joan Rabinowitz.<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai\">D\u00e1ta an taifeadta <span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai-bearla\">(Recording Date)<\/span>:<\/span> 07\/04\/1982.<\/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> 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>One evening of late into Bandon I strayed<br \/>\nDown Clonakilty when making me way<br \/>\nAt Balliniscorthy some time I delayed<br \/>\nAnd I wet my old whistle with porter.<\/p>\n<p>Then I spit on me fist and I raised up me stick<br \/>\nAnd down the coach road like a deer I did lip<br \/>\nI cared not for bailiffs, landlords or Old Nick<br \/>\nAnd I sang like the lark in the morning.<\/p>\n<p>Diddely-eye, diddely-idle-dull idle-dull-day<br \/>\nDiddely-eye-dye, diddely-idle-dull idle-dull-day<br \/>\nDuddely-idle idle-dull eye-dye-dull day<br \/>\nDiddely-idle-dull didle-dull arum.<\/p>\n<p>And I scarcely had travelled one mile of the road<br \/>\nWhen I heard a dispute in a farmer&#8217;s abode<br \/>\nThe son of the landlord, an ill-looking toad<br \/>\nAnd the wife of the bold tenant farmer.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Oh, what in the devil&#8217;s come over you all?<br \/>\nWhen I call for the rent sure I get none at all &#8211;<br \/>\nAt the next Sessions you&#8217;ll pay for it all,<br \/>\nOr you&#8217;ll take the high road to Dungarvan!&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Chorus<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Hurray for the bold tenant&#8217;s wife,&#8217; she replied,<br \/>\n&#8216;You&#8217;re as bad as your daddy on the other side!<br \/>\nOur National Land League will pull down your pride<br \/>\nFor it&#8217;s able to bear every storm.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Your husband was drinking in town last night,<br \/>\nShouting and bawling for bold tenant&#8217;s rights<br \/>\n[But our Plan of Campaign<sup class=\"tagairt-n\u00f3ta-bun-leathanaigh\">1<\/sup>] will give him a fright<br \/>\nFor he&#8217;ll never bear our old storms.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;If my husband was drinking, now what&#8217;s that to you?<br \/>\nI&#8217;d rather he&#8217;d drink it than give it to you!<br \/>\nYou skinny old miser, you&#8217;re not worth a chew &#8211;<br \/>\nAnd your mossy old land is no bargain!&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Chorus<\/p>\n<p>So he shouted &#8216;hooray&#8217; and she shouted &#8216;yoo hoo&#8217;<br \/>\nAnd through the green fields like Old Nick he then flew,<br \/>\nSaying &#8216;God help the landlords and old Ireland too!&#8217;<br \/>\nAgus f\u00e1gaimid si\u00fad mar at\u00e1 s\u00e9.<\/p>\n<div class=\"n\u00f3ta\u00ed-bun-leathanaigh\">\n<h2 id=\"t:notai\">Notes<\/h2>\n<p class=\"n\u00f3ta-bun-leathanaigh\">1. Joe actually says &#8216;At the nampaign&#8217; &#8211; presumably thinking for a split second of the third line in the fourth verse, which begins &#8216;At the next Sessions,&#8217; before correcting himself. The correct words as he sang them on other occasions have been substituted for the nonsense. The Plan of Campaign, published in the United Irishman in 1886, laid out a process for forcing landlords to reduce rents at times when harvests were poor.<\/p>\n<p>This song seems to have been a favourite of Joe&#8217;s, if the number of recordings he made of it can be taken as an indication.<\/p>\n<p>The reference to the National Land League dates the song to the period of increasingly bitter protest against the system of land-ownership in Ireland, which had come to be seen as one of the ultimate causes of suffering during the famine. Spearheaded by Michael Davitt, the Land League was established in 1879 to encourage &#8216;a general resistance to eviction and a demand for a reduction of rents.&#8217; By 1881, the agitation had &#8216;almost assumed the character of a civil war.<\/p>\n<p>Mobs gathered upon every pretext, the troops were stoned, landlords were shot&hellip;&#8217; When many of the organizers were arrested, things only got worse, with cycles of &#8216;agitation, repression and terrorism&#8217; that only ended in 1903 with the passage of the Wyndham Act. A number of political songs were composed in connection with these events, most of them far less light-hearted than this one; see Georges Denis Zimmermann, Songs of Irish Rebellion (1966), 59-61.<\/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-598","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\/598","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=598"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1688,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598\/revisions\/1688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}