Fine Ould Irish Gentleman, The

DESCRIPTION: "I'll sing you a fine ould song made by a fine old Paddy's pate." He lives in a "mighty curious," not especially fancy home. He goes on a spree, and gets so drunk that they think he is dead. But he smells the whiskey at the wake and comes to life
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1870 (New-Comic-Songster)
KEYWORDS: derivative drink death humorous
FOUND IN: Ireland
REFERENCES (3 citations):
Kane-SongsAndSayingsOfAnUlsterChildhood, pp. 89-90, "I'll sing you a good old song made by a good old pate" (1 fragment, short enough that it might be either "The Old English Gentleman" or this, but I've filed it here because the gentleman is called Irish)
New-Comic-Songster, p. 60, "The Fine Ould Irish Gentleman" (1 text, 1 tune)
Dime-Song-Book #3/72, pp. 18-19 and #3/62, pp. 18-19, "The Fine Old Irish Gentleman" (1 text)
Roud #23518
CROSS-REFERENCES:
cf. "The Old English Gentleman" (lyrics, theme) and references there
cf. "Finegan's Wake" [Laws Q17] (theme of a man who seems dead until the wake)
NOTES [36 words]: The song "The Old English Gentleman" is clearly intimately related to this one (Roud lumps them), but since one is clearly a rewrite of the other (the Irish song probably being the parody), I keep them separate. - RBW
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