{"id":4179,"date":"2020-07-08T16:02:06","date_gmt":"2020-07-08T16:02:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/folksongandmusichall.com\/?page_id=4179"},"modified":"2020-10-22T15:17:34","modified_gmt":"2020-10-22T15:17:34","slug":"darby-mcguire","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/folksongandmusichall.com\/index.php\/darby-mcguire\/","title":{"rendered":"Darby McGuire"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
AKA<\/strong><\/td>Darby M’Guire<\/td><\/tr>
First Published<\/td> 1865<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
Lyrics<\/strong><\/td>DK Gavan<\/td>Music<\/strong><\/td>Hobson?<\/td>Roud<\/strong><\/td>RNV4038<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Music Hall Performers<\/strong><\/td>Harry Clifton<\/td><\/tr>
Folk performances<\/strong><\/td>Source Singers<\/strong>
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Some say 'twas in England I first saw the light,\nAnd other in Scotland would have my first night;\nBut as writers on heroes are often astray,\nI think for myself I'll have something to say.\nOh! the night I was born sure I very well know,\nWhen the clergyman tumbled in cover'd with snow;\nHe laid hold of myself and sat down by the fire,\nAnd made a good boy of young Darby M'Guire.\n\nThen Hurrah for ould Ireland, the land of my birth,\n'Tis there you'll get plenty of pleasure and mirth,\nWhere the beautiful girls are sure to admire\nSuch rollicsome fellows as Darby M'Guire.<\/em>\n\nFrom christ'nings to weddings what heavenly bliss,\nAs I stand by the bride and obtain the first kiss,\nWhile the creature looks sly as if nothing occurr'd,\nAnd the husband looks daggers but daren't say a word;\nOch then for the carving of praties and pigs,\nThe piper begins for to \"rattle the jigs,\"\nThe girls they jump up and begin to perspire,\nAt the pleasure of dancing with Darby M'Guire.\n\nFor twenty miles round at a market or fair,\nI'm sure to be found if I don't be elsewhere,\nI'm just on the spot when a row is begun,\nAnd I'm smashing away for the sake of the fun;\n'Tis then that you'd see the big blackthorns all fly,\n\"Milia Murther\" you'd think 'twas a show'r from the sky,\nAnd who wins the battle I never enquire,\nThey're all \"blood relation\" to Darby M'Guire.\n\nBut speaking of vows I don't wish to offend,\nFor I'm always the boy to assist a poor friend;\nThough first in the \"field,\" and not last in the \"row,\"\nI can mind number one and look after the plough.\nSome paint Ragged Pat with a villianous face,\nBut I hope none of that in my own you can trace,\nTo see every man happy is all I desire,\nContented and jovial, like Darby M'Guire.<\/pre>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
One of three songs which Harry Clifton<\/a> popularised, having commissioned DK Gavan \u2018The Galway Poet\u2019 to write them (the other 2 are Lannigans Ball<\/em> and The rocky road to Dublin.<\/em>). As far as I am aware this one has not entered the folksong  tradition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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