“The Old Leather Breeches”
Description
"At the sign of the bell, on the road to Clonmel, Paddy Hegarty kept a night shaybeen." When a party arrives demanding food and drink, Paddy supplies liquor, but for food can only cut up his leather breeches. When the trick is discovered, a riot ensues
Notes
Morton-Maguire: "It is common throughout Ireland and I have heard [it] in the Border's of Scotland."
The date and master id (GB-2648-1/2) for Hayward's record is provided by Bill Dean-Myatt, MPhil. compiler of the Scottish National Discography. - BS
Broadsides
- LOCSinging, as110230, "Old Leather Breeches!," unknown, 19C
Recordings
- Richard Hayward, Ireland Calling (Glasgow,n.d.), pp. 14-15, "The Ould Leather Breeches" (text, music and reference to Decca F-2266 recorded Feb 6, 1931)
References
- Meredith/Covell/Brown, pp. 232-233, "The Old Leather Breeches" (1 text, 1 tune)
- O'Conor, p. 75, "The Old Leather Breeches" (1 text)
- OLochlainn 67A, "The Old Leather Breeches" (1 text, 1 tune)
- Peacock, pp. 71-72, "Leather Britches" (1 text, 1 tune)
- Morton-Maguire 37, pp. 123-125,171, "The Old Leather Britches" (1 text, 1 tune)
- Hayward-Ulster, pp. 22-24, "The Ould Leather Breeches" (1 text)
- Roud #923
- BI, MCB232