“Pat's Wedding”

Description

"O come in, man, and let's hear your cracks; I heard ye was o'er at the wedding O aye, man, indeed I was that, And I lent them a hand at the bedding." The singer describes Pat, "a comical body"; Rob, "the greedy hash"; etc.

Supplemental text

Pat's Wedding
  Partial text(s)

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From Emelyn Elizabeth Gardner and Geraldine Jencks Chickering,
Ballads and Songs of Southern Michigan, p. 404. "[S]ung in 1916
by Mr. John Laidlaw, Ypsilanti."

"O come in, man, and let's hear your cracks;
I heard ye was o'er at the wedding."
"O aye, man, indeed I was that,
And I lent them a hand at the bedding."
Right-talepha-rally-a, right-talepha-addy,
Right-talepha-rally-a, right-talepha-addy,

(four additional stanzas were printed; one was expurgated)

Notes

This may well be a fragment of some sort of song such as "The Blythesome Bridal," about an uproarious wedding. But it appears a bit fragmentary, and the omission of a verse at the end doesn't help. I file it separately until something clearly related shows up, and so does Roud. - RBW

References

1. Gardner/Chickering 166, "Pat's Wedding" (1 expurgated text)
2. ST GC166 (Partial)
3. Roud #3705
4. BI, GC166