Old Leather Breeches, The

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
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1901 (OConor); 19C (Wolf)
KEYWORDS: drink clothes party
FOUND IN: Ireland Australia Canada(Newf) Britain(England(Lond))
REFERENCES (10 citations):
Meredith/Covell/Brown-FolkSongsOfAustraliaVol2, pp. 232-233, "The Old Leather Breeches" (1 text, 1 tune)
Hamer-GarnersGay, pp. 46-47, "The Leather Breeches" (1 text, 1 tune)
O'Conor-OldTimeSongsAndBalladOfIreland, p. 75, "The Old Leather Breeches" (1 text)
OLochlainn-IrishStreetBallads 67A, "The Old Leather Breeches" (1 text, 1 tune)
Peacock, pp. 71-72, "Leather Britches" (1 text, 1 tune)
Bennett/Downey-JeromeJustOneMoreSong 16, pp. 116-1190, "Paddy Hagerty's Old Leather Breeches" (1 text)
Morton/Maguire-ComeDayGoDayGodSendSunday 37, pp. 123-125,171, "The Old Leather Britches" (1 text, 1 tune)
Hayward-UlsterSongsAndBalladsOfTheTownAndCountry, pp. 22-24, "The Ould Leather Breeches" (1 text)
Behan-IrelandSings, #66, "Oul Leather Britches" (1 text, 1 tune, modified)
Wolf-AmericanSongSheets, #1718, p. 115, "The Old Leather Breeches" (1 reference)
Roud #923
RECORDINGS:
Jerome Downey, "Paddy Hagerty's Old Leather Breeches" (on NFJDowney01)
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)
BROADSIDES:
LOCSinging, as110230, "Old Leather Breeches!," unknown, 19C
NOTES [45 words]: Morton/Maguire-ComeDayGoDayGodSendSunday: "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
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File: MCB232

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