{"id":15451,"date":"2022-03-25T15:21:15","date_gmt":"2022-03-25T15:21:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/folksongandmusichall.com\/?page_id=15451"},"modified":"2022-04-12T05:44:09","modified_gmt":"2022-04-12T05:44:09","slug":"irish-wedding-the","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/folksongandmusichall.com\/index.php\/irish-wedding-the\/","title":{"rendered":"Irish Wedding, The"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
AKA<\/strong><\/td>Paddy’s Wedding
Tid Re I; or The marriage of Miss Kitty O’Donovan to Mr Paddy Rafferty<\/td><\/tr>
First Published<\/td>1796<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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Writer\/composer<\/td>Charles Dibdin<\/td>Roud<\/strong><\/td>RN17123<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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Music Hall Performers<\/strong><\/td>Sam Collins<\/td><\/tr>
Folk performances<\/strong><\/td>Collected from the singing of:<\/strong>
Kneeland, James H; USA : Maine; 1941<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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THE  IRISH  WEDDING. \n\nSure,  won't  you  hear \nWhat  roaring  cheer \nWas  spread  at  Paddy's  wedding, O! \nAnd  how  so  gay \nThey  spent  the  day, \nFrom  the  churching  to  the  bedding, O ! \nFirst,  book  in  hand,  came  Father  Quipes, \nWith  the  bride's  dadda,  the  bailey, O! \nWhile  all  the  way  to  church  the  pipes \nStruck  up  a  lilt  so  gayly, O! \n\nThen  there  was  Mat, \nAnd  sturdy  Pat, \nAnd  merry  Morgan  Murphy, O! \nAnd  Murdock Mags, \nAnd  Tirlogh  Skaggs, \nMacloclan,  and  Dick  Durfey, O!\nAnd  then  the  girls,  dress'd  out  in  wipes, \nLed  on  by  Tad  O'Reilly, O! \nAll  jigging,  as  the  merry  pipes\nStruck  up  a  lilt  so  gayly, O! \n\nWhen  Pat  was  ask'd \nWould  his  love  last, \nThe  chancel  echoed  wid  laughter, O! \n\"Arrah,  fait!\"  cried  Pat, \n\"You  may  say  dat, \nTo  the  end  of  the  world  and  after, O!\" \nThen  tenderly  her  hand  he  gripes, \nAnd  kisses  her  genteelly, O! \nWhile  all  in  tune  the  merry  pipes \nStruck  up  a  lilt  so  gayly, O! \n\nNow  a  roaring  set \nAt  dinner  are  met, \nSo  frolicksome  and  so  frisky, O! \nPoratoes  galore, \nA  skirraig  or  more, \nAnd  a  flowing  madder  of  whisky, O!  \nTo  the  bride's  dear  health  round  went  the  swipes, \nThat  her  joys  might  be  nightly  and  daily, O! \nAnd  still,  as  they  guttled,  the  merry  pipes \nStruck  up  a  lilt  so  gayly, O! \n\nAnd  then,  at  night, \nO  what  delight \nTo  see  them  all  footing  and  prancing, O!  \nAn  opera  or  ball \nWere  nothing  at  all, \nCompar'd  to  the  style  of  their  dancing, O! \nAnd  then  to  see  old  father  Quipes \nBeat  time  with  his  sheialy, O! \nWhile  the  chanter  wid  his  merry  pipes \nStruck  up  a  lilt  so  gayly, O! \n\nAnd  now  the  knot \nSo  tipsy  are  got \nThey'll  all  go  to  sleep  without  rocking, O! \nSo  the  bridemaids  fair  \nNow  gravely  prepare \nFor  throwing  of  the  stocking, O!  \nAnd  round,  to  be  sure,  didn't  go  the  swipes \nAt  the  bride's  expense  so  freely, O!  \nWhile  to  wish  them  good  night  the  merry  pipes \nStruck  up  a  lilt  so  gayly, O! \n<\/pre>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
A song by Charles Dibdin<\/a>, from his  dramatic piece The General Election<\/em> which premiered in 1796 when he opened his  Sans Souci Theatre<\/em>  on Leicester Place close to Leicester Square, London. Dibdin’s songs were still popular in the early music halls of the 1840s to 1860s when this song was particularly associated with the singing of Sam Collins<\/a>, who made a speciality of singing comic Irish songs. The words given above are those published in  The selected songs of Charles Dibdin<\/em><\/a>, they are almost identical to those published in Diprose\u2019s Comic and Sentimental Music Hall Song Book<\/em>, which doesn’t credit the song to Dibdin describing it only as “sung by Sam Collins.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Collins’ obituary in The Era <\/em>described the song as his first great hit:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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June 4, 1865;  <\/strong>The Era <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The song appears many times in cheap 19th-century street literature in the UK Ireland in America, only rarely credited to Dibdin, and often referred to as Paddy’s Wedding<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Sources:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n