"Young Tim Murphy"
(Barney/Doctor O'Neill, Faraway Wedding (The), Kilfenora Jig, Kitty Lie Over, Paddy’s Return,Patsy McCann’s, (Praties are Dug and the) Frost is All Over (The), (What/What’ll) (You/I) Do If The Kettle Boils/Boiled Over?)
Jig/Quadrille, D, AABB (AA'B).
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Playing or Personal Notes:
No personal notes.
History
AKA and see "Barney O'Neill," "Doctor O'Neill (2)," “Faraway Wedding (2) (The),” "Kilfenora Jig (5)," “Kitty Lie Over,” “Paddy’s Return (1),” “Patsy McCann's,” "Praties are Dug and the Frost is All Over (The)," “What'll I do if the Kettle Boils Over (2).”
Irish, Double Jig. D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AA’B (Moylan): AABB (O’Neill).
Editor Moylan points out this is the tune usually associated with the verse “What would you do if the kettle boiled over,” and states that Séamus Ennis and Elizabeth Cronin both sang the song to this air.
The lyrics below were popularized by De Dannan member Johnny Moynihan (who had them from Seamus Ennis, who obtained them from Elizabeth Cronin of Macroon, County Cork, who recorded them in 1947):
The praties are dug and the frost is all over, Kitty lie over close to the wall. What would you do if the kettle boiled over? What could I do but to fill it again. What would you do if the cows eat the clover? What could I do but to set it again? What would you do if you married a soldier? What could I do but to follow the gun?
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