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Jon W.	02 Mar 98 - 04:48 PM
Alice	02 Mar 98 - 05:06 PM

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Subject: Song add: Tittery Irie Aye
From: Jon W.
Date: 02 Mar 98 - 04:48 PM

Here is yet another Mormon folksong. Actually this one is about the Mormons from a sympathetic though non-Mormon perspective. The tune seems to be Irish, and I would appreciate hearing about any other songs or variations that this may have been adapted from. (or should I say from which this may have been adapted?)

X:1
T:Tittery-Irie-Aye
C:Unknown
B:Music of the Mormons
M:6/8
L:1/8
K:Em

E2-F|G2- F E2 E| A3 B2 A|G2 F E2 G|A3
G2- A|B2 A G2 F| E2 E E2 D| B,2 D D2 B,|D3
D2 D B,B,B, B,2 A,| B,3 Z2 B,|EEE E2 D|E3

W: Come all my good people and listen to my song,
W: Although it's not so very good it's not so very long
W: And sing Tittery Irie Aye sing Tittery Irie Oh.

W: Now concerning this strange people I'm now a-goin' to sing,
W: For the way they have been treated I think it is a sin.
W: And sing Tittery Irie Aye sing Tittery Irie Oh.

W: They've been driven from their homes and away from Nauvoo
W: For to seek another home in the wilderness anew.
W: And sing Tittery Irie Aye sing Tittery Irie Oh.

W: O they stopped among the Indians but there don't mean to stay
W: And they'll soon be a-packin' up and jogging on their way.
W: And sing Tittery Irie Aye sing Tittery Irie Oh.

W: They made a halt at Council Bluffs, but there don't mean to stay
W: Some feed their cattle rushes and some prarie hay.
W: And sing Tittery Irie Aye sing Tittery Irie Oh.

W: There is another item, to mention it I must
W: Concerning spiritual women that make a helluva fuss,
W: And sing Tittery Irie Aye sing Tittery Irie Oh.

W: Some men have got a dozen wives and others have a score
W: And the man that's got just one wife is a-lookin' out for more,
W: And sing Tittery Irie Aye sing Tittery Irie Oh.

W: Now young men don't get discouraged, get married if you can
W: But take care don't get a woman that belongs to another man,
W: And sing Tittery Irie Aye sing Tittery Irie Oh.

W: Now concerning this strange people I've nothing more to say
W: Until we all get settled in some future day.
W: And sing Tittery Irie Aye sing Tittery Irie Oh.

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Subject: RE: Song add: Tittery Irie Aye
From: Alice
Date: 02 Mar 98 - 05:06 PM

Jon, I couldn't quite make out your tune, but there is an old Irish song called "The Cork Leg". It may be related. I have the version from county Tyrone in vol.2 of Herbert Hughes. It begins:

I'll tell you a story that is no sham,
In Holland lived a merchant man.
And every morning he says, "I am
The richest merchant in Amsterdam."
Ri-tiddy tollori-lori-laddy-ti
Tiddy-tillori-lori-lee.

One day he sat as full as an egg
When a poor relation came in to beg
And kicking him out with a brogue and keg,
And kicking him out he broke his leg.
Ri-tiddy-tillori-lori-laddy-ti
etc.

It goes on for about nine or ten verses. The only place I have ever heard it performed was on National Public Radio, in a NYC debut of classical Irish soprano, Francis Lucey. She ended her classical concert with Irish music.

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