Hello Patsy Fagan,
You’re the apple of my eye
Hello Patsy Fagan,
You can hear the girls all cry
Oh you come from Tipperary,
That no one can deny
You’re a harem scarem divil may carem,
Dacent Irish boy”
Just to explain the reference to the grandson being “The Apple of my Eye” in the last blog I have to bring you back to the song above.
I have no idea where it came from, other than it is obviously an emigrant song, from England possibly, or Scotland.
For some reason I decided to make it Fionn and my song and have sung it to him whenever we are together.
Now the rest of the family have started to use it as his theme tune.
You sing it to him and you get a seraphic grin, a total stillness and then. an imperceptable bending of the knees in time to the music.
Hello Patsy Fagin,
You’re the Apple of my Eye.
Comments
Terry Cunningham
on April 12, 2010Hi Martin. Still enjoying your blogs. It seems that
“Thomas Keenan (1860-1927), an actor and entertainer, using the nom de plume Tom Conway, wrote a stream of popular ballads: “Mother Machree”, If You’re Irish, come Into the Parlour”, “Hello Patsy Fagan”, etc.”
It describes the experiences of an Irish immigrant in Glasgow. I’m sure that you can follow that up.
PS How do I get from Waterford to your abode, now that Ryan Air has done the nasty?
Regards, Terry and Eilish.
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