Pat of Mullingar

DESCRIPTION: "They may talk of Flying Childers" and other fast horses but none compares to the filly that drags Pat Mulingar's jaunting car. She won cups but "lost an eye at Limerick and an ear at Waterloo... She's gentle as the dove sirs, her speed you can't deny"
AUTHOR: Harry Sydney (source: FolkSongAndMusicHall)
EARLIEST DATE: before 1862 (broadside, Bodleian Harding B 15(234b))
KEYWORDS: racing horse
HISTORICAL REFERENCES:
June 18, 1815 - Battle of Waterloo
FOUND IN: Ireland
REFERENCES (3 citations):
O'Conor-OldTimeSongsAndBalladOfIreland, p. 10, "Pat of Mullingar" (1 text)
OLochlainn-IrishStreetBallads 90, "Pat of Mullingar" (1 text, 1 tune)
FolkSongAndMusicHall, "Pat of Mullingar"
Roud #3067
BROADSIDES:
Bodleian, Harding B 15(234b), "Pat of Mullingar", J.O. Bebbington (Manchester), 1858-1861; also 2806 c.15(130), Harding B 11(2967), 2806 b.11(121), "Pat of Mullingar"; Harding B 26(503), Harding B 19(91), "Pat of Mullinger"
SAME TUNE:
The Contractor ("I'm a swate contractor, who supplies the army-boys, To chate the public of this land is the chief of all my joys") (RodeyMaguiresComicVarietySongster, p. 19)
NOTES [58 words]: Flying Childers, born in 1714, "is considered the first truly great racehorse in the history of the Thoroughbred." (source: Thoroughbred Heritage site) - BS
This seems to have been borrowed a lot, reportedly for "The South Down Militia" and, more recently, for another "Pat of Mullingar" song about an Irish rebel who could not be tracked down. - RBW
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File: OCon010

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