{"id":680,"date":"2015-10-06T14:06:21","date_gmt":"2015-10-06T13:06:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/ga\/farmers-cursed-wife-the\/"},"modified":"2017-09-08T16:51:21","modified_gmt":"2017-09-08T15:51:21","slug":"farmers-cursed-wife-the","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/ga\/farmers-cursed-wife-the\/","title":{"rendered":"Farmer&#8217;s Cursed Wife, The"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 id=\"t:seinnteoirin1\">Play recording: Farmer&#8217;s Cursed Wife, The<\/h2>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-680-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/00-micil\/me\u00e1in\/farmers-cursed-wife-the.mp3?_=1\" \/><source type=\"audio\/ogg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/00-micil\/me\u00e1in\/farmers-cursed-wife-the.ogg?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/00-micil\/me\u00e1in\/farmers-cursed-wife-the.mp3\">https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/00-micil\/me\u00e1in\/farmers-cursed-wife-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> Farmer&#8217;s Cursed Wife, 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> 855412.<\/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> 160.<\/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> 278.<\/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> Robin Hiteshew.<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai\">D\u00e1ta an taifeadta <span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai-bearla\">(Recording Date)<\/span>:<\/span> 16\/03\/1980.<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai\">Su\u00edomh an taifeadta <span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai-bearla\">(Recording Location)<\/span>:<\/span> Devon, Pennsylvania, United States of America.<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai\">Oc\u00e1id an taifeadta <span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai-bearla\">(Recording Occasion)<\/span>:<\/span> concert.<\/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>The Devil came to this farmer and he asked him, is there any of your family- I must take away one of your family; who do you want to give [me]? And the man said, &#8216;Take away my wife,&#8217; he said, &#8216;because she&#8217;s nagged me all my life, and I can&#8217;t stand it any longer.&#8217; And this is the way it was:<\/p>\n<p>The Devil he came to the man at the plough<br \/>\nDaigh-dee diddle-um diddle-um dee<br \/>\nHe said &#8216;One of your family I must take now!&#8217;<br \/>\nWith me raigh-full doo-full daddely diddle-um dee.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Which of my family do you like best?&#8217;<br \/>\n&#8216;Your wife, of course &#8211; she&#8217;s well-known in Hell!&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Take her away with all of me heart &#8211;<br \/>\nFor twenty long years she&#8217;s broken my heart!&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>So the Devil he hoisted her up on his back<br \/>\nThrough fields and meadows he went awful far<\/p>\n<p>He never stopped til he came to Coote Hill<br \/>\n&#8216;Put me down, put me down me water to spill!&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>They never stopped til they came to Hell&#8217;s gate<sup class=\"tagairt-n\u00f3ta-bun-leathanaigh\">1<\/sup><br \/>\nShe jumped on a thorn(?), she battered his face<\/p>\n<p>One little devil jumped up on a wall<br \/>\n&#8216;Take her away! Take her away! She&#8217;ll batter us all!<\/p>\n<p>So the Devil he hoisted her up on his back<br \/>\nHe was nine days going, one day coming back<\/p>\n<p>The Devil he staggered coming up the lane<sup class=\"tagairt-n\u00f3ta-bun-leathanaigh\">2<\/sup><br \/>\nWith a battering ram he pulled on the chain(?)<\/p>\n<p>She came to the old man in the bed<sup class=\"tagairt-n\u00f3ta-bun-leathanaigh\">3<\/sup><br \/>\nShe lifted the pan and she smashed in his head<\/p>\n<p>Then she ran away over the hill<br \/>\n&#8216;If the Devil won&#8217;t have me, I wonder who will?&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Now they say that the women are worse than the men:<br \/>\nWhen they go to Hell, they&#8217;re kicked out again!<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not fair, is it?<\/p>\n<div class=\"n\u00f3ta\u00ed-bun-leathanaigh\">\n<h2 id=\"t:notai\">Notes<\/h2>\n<p>Some variant readings from another performance (UW85-54.16):<\/p>\n<p class=\"n\u00f3ta-bun-leathanaigh\">1 They never stopped til they came to Hell&#8217;s wall<br \/>\nShe jumped on his back and she scolded them all<\/p>\n<p class=\"n\u00f3ta-bun-leathanaigh\">2 The old man looked through a crack in the wall<br \/>\nHe saw the old Devil stagger and fall<\/p>\n<p class=\"n\u00f3ta-bun-leathanaigh\">3 The old woman came to the man in the bed<br \/>\nShe lifted a chair and she smashed in his head<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, UW85-54.16 is not as good in terms of sound quality but it makes better sense of some of the lines here and, incidentally, shows the process of Joe&#8217;s aural memory at work: if the words don&#8217;t come, make up something on the fly that more-or-less fits the bill!<\/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-680","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\/680","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=680"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2025,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680\/revisions\/2025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}