Saturday 23 February 2008

"Oh ye broke me cups and saucers"

I've set me playing the recorder of the tune of "cups and saucers" as ringtone for Mum :)
I started with "Moll Dubh" for Fionnuala.
Quite a striking mobile ringtone! :-o

Mum remembers her dad singing this chorus, and only the chorus:

Oh ye broke me cups and saucers
Oh ye did ye rogue, oh ye did ye rogue
Oh ye broke me cups and saucers
Oh ye did ye rogue, oh ye did ye rogue

Much grepping of internet reveals those lyrics are nowhere!
Maybe on an album by Bobby Gardiner - The Clare Shout - song The Kerry Cow, Cups and Saucers
http://www.thesession.org/recordings/display/2330
Someone says on comments "It's called Cups and Saucers on Bobby Gardiner's album "The Clare Shout". He lilts the tune and runs it into the song "Cups and Saucers" (of the same tune).
Maybe that is song eilzab is talking about."

thesession.org seems to be quite a good source for information on irish tunes.
lyrics, sheet music and ABC music
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/1123
Also known as "Bhiosa La I BPort Lairge", Cups And Saucers, False Knight On The Road, The False Knight On The Road, I'll Cloot My Johnny's Breeches, Let's Pet The Pope, Little May Cullinane, O, I Courted A Farmer's Daughter, Port Lairgè, Portlairge, Portláirge, Dashing White Sergent, White Cockade

And in last.fm/youtube can find various renditions of "The False Knight on the
Road" ... and one or two of them have the same tune.
http://www.last.fm/music/Steeleye+Span/_/False+Knight+On+The+Road+%5Blive%5D

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