{"id":666,"date":"2015-10-06T14:06:21","date_gmt":"2015-10-06T13:06:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/ga\/broom-sweet-broom\/"},"modified":"2016-01-25T09:06:26","modified_gmt":"2016-01-25T09:06:26","slug":"broom-sweet-broom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/ga\/broom-sweet-broom\/","title":{"rendered":"Broom, Sweet Broom"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 id=\"t:seinnteoirin1\">Play recording: Broom, Sweet Broom<\/h2>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-666-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/00-micil\/me\u00e1in\/broom-sweet-broom.mp3?_=1\" \/><source type=\"audio\/ogg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/00-micil\/me\u00e1in\/broom-sweet-broom.ogg?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/00-micil\/me\u00e1in\/broom-sweet-broom.mp3\">https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/00-micil\/me\u00e1in\/broom-sweet-broom.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> Broom, Sweet Broom.<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai\">Uimhir Chatal\u00f3ige Ollscoil Washington <span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai-bearla\">(University of Washington Catalogue Number)<\/span>:<\/span> 853902.<\/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> 379.<\/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> 9\/06\/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>JH: The name of this song is &#8216;Broom, Sweet Brooms&#8217; and I&#8217;ll be honest with you, the only thing I know about it is, a man, long ago, they sold brooms, just to make a living. This old man was always cutting brooms, but the son was thinking about different brooms, you know, having a good time. And he stayed in his bed all day. But sure, one day the father made him get out of bed and down to the woods &#8211; and what happened when he was down in the woods? He ended up a rich man and married happily &#8211; unhappily ever after.<\/p>\n<p>LS: Who do you remember singing this?<\/p>\n<p>JH: All the old people at home used to sing this.<\/p>\n<p>LS: Nobody&hellip;<\/p>\n<p>JH: Nobody in particular. No&hellip; Oh, they all sang it. Eh-<\/p>\n<p>LS: Where, in the evening?<\/p>\n<p>JH: At parties. Mostly at parties, you know, something like that. It&#8217;s a party song. Mostly at parties they sang it, you know. It&#8217;s a good song, you see, because, it&#8217;s a sort of- in a way it&#8217;s a sort of a bawdy song, you know. In an indirect way, you know.<\/p>\n<p>There was an old man who lived in the woods<br \/>\nHis trade it was cutting down broom, sweet broom<br \/>\nHe had a son, his name it was John,<br \/>\nAnd he stayed in his room until noon, day noon<br \/>\nHe stayed in his room until noon.<\/p>\n<p>Early one morning the old man arose<br \/>\nWent into his son&#8217;s gay room, gay room<br \/>\nSaying, &#8216;You lazy old sod, get out of your bed<br \/>\nAnd go down to the woods and cut broom, sweet broom<br \/>\nGo down to the woods and cut broom.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>John arose and put on his clothes<br \/>\nHe looked at his room, his room, gay room<br \/>\nSaying, &#8216;A man of me birth who got learning on earth,<br \/>\nWhy shouldn&#8217;t<sup class=\"tagairt-n\u00f3ta-bun-leathanaigh\">1<\/sup> I stoop to cut broom, sweet broom?<br \/>\nWhy should I stoop to cut broom?&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>So John went out and down to the woods<br \/>\nHe started to cut his own broom, sweet broom<br \/>\nThe evening came on and he lay down to rest<br \/>\nAnd forgot about broom, sweet broom, sweet broom<br \/>\nForgot about broom, sweet broom.<\/p>\n<p>The lady was up in her mantle so gay<br \/>\nShe saw this young man with his broom, sweet broom<br \/>\nShe said to her maid, &#8216;go down to the woods<br \/>\nAnd bring up this young man with his broom, sweet broom,<br \/>\nBring up this young man with his broom.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>John went up to the mansion so gay,<br \/>\nWent into the lady&#8217;s gay room, gay room,<br \/>\nHe stayed there all night til early next day<br \/>\nAnd never thought of his brooms, sweet brooms,<br \/>\nAnd never thought of his brooms.<\/p>\n<p>They sent for the priest to marry them both<br \/>\nInside her room, her room, gay room<br \/>\nThey were happy and gay the rest of their days<br \/>\nAnd never had broom, sweet brooms, sweet brooms,<br \/>\nAnd never had broom, sweet brooms.<\/p>\n<p>JH: What do you think of that? It&#8217;s a good lilt of a song, isn&#8217;t it?<\/p>\n<div class=\"n\u00f3ta\u00ed-bun-leathanaigh\">\n<h2 id=\"t:notai\">Notes<\/h2>\n<p class=\"n\u00f3ta-bun-leathanaigh\">1. Presumably this should be &#8216;why should I stoop&hellip;&#8217; as in the line following.<\/p>\n<p>Rustling of paper between verses four and five suggests that Joe may be reading the words of this song out of a book. He occasionally does so in private situations like this, although the context here is ambiguous.<\/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-666","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\/666","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=666"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1398,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666\/revisions\/1398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}