“Fogan MacAleer”
Description
"There lived in bonny Scotland a man named MacAleer ... he had the queerest notions ... don't you know what I mean?" He asks the blacksmith's help to buy Lauchlan Ban's mare. The blacksmith tricks MacAleer so that he marries Ban's daughter Mary instead.
Notes
Ives-DullCare refers to "the Scottish custom of having a go-between approach the prospective bride's father to arrange for a marriage." Ives finds a manuscript of "a song called 'The Jolly Barber' which was clearly Doyle's model for this song." The key fragment here is "don't you know what I mean?"; the song is apparently indexed here as "The Jolly Barber Lad."- BS
Cross references
- cf. "The Jolly Barber Lad" (see Notes)
Recordings
- Joseph Walsh, "Fogan MacAleer" (on MREIves01)
References
- Ives-DullCare, pp. 156-159, 245, "Fogan MacAleer" (1 text, 1 tune)
- Roud #13989
- BI, IvDC156