Go Over to Ireland

DESCRIPTION: "Go over to Ireland, and there you may see, How all dirty and ragged the Irish they be. A two-legged stool, and a table to match, And a string on the door, to lift the latch." The singer describes the dirt and vermin that infest the typical Irish home
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1949 (Nestler)
KEYWORDS: Ireland bug hardtimes
FOUND IN: US(NE)
REFERENCES (1 citation):
ADDITIONAL: Harold Nestler, "Songs from the Hudson Valley" (article in _New York Folklore Quarterly_, Volume V, #2, Summer 1949), p. 102, "Go Over to Ireland" (1 text)
NOTES [46 words]: Nestler hints that this was an English song insulting the Irish, even though his informant claimed it came from an Irishman. Insult the Irish it certainly does, but it should perhaps be recalled that it was the English laws who left the Irish in such a situation of poverty! - RBW
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