The Hat my Father Wore

Original Track ID

SA1960.143.B6

Original Tape ID

SA1960.143

Summary

A fragment of a sentimental Irish song:

I'm Paddy Miles, an Irish boy, just come across the sea,
For singing and for dancing, I hope that I'll please thee,
I can dance and sing with any man that's done in days of yore,
On St Patrick's Day I love to wear the hat my father wore.

[Chorus:]
It's old but it's beautiful, the best you've ever seen,
It was wore for more than ninety years, in the beautiful isle so green,
From my father's great ancentors [sic] it descended with galore,
It's a relic of old daicincy [decency], is the hat my father wore.

Item Notes

1 verse and chorus of 4 lines. Attributed to Irish songwriter Johnny Patterson (1840—1889).

See:
Greig-Duncan vol. 8, pp. 66-68
'Flying Cloud' (M. C. Dean, 1922) p. 64
'Walton's New Treasury of Irish Songs & Ballads' vol. 2 (Dublin, 1966) p. 94
'Folk-Song of the North-East' (G. Greig, K. Goldstein & A. Argo, 1963 reprint) art. CLXVIII

Recording Location

Language

English

Genre

Song

Collection

SoSS

Classification

R4796 GD1538

Source Type

Reel to reel

Audio Quality

Fair