Hold-Up, The

DESCRIPTION: "Faith in me cuttle and stick in me buttle," the singer goes off to Dublin to look for work. A robber stops him and sticks a gun in his mouth. The singer steps back and knocks down the robber with his "shallallah," and goes on his way
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1946 (Hoosier Folklore V, according to Dorson)
KEYWORDS: travel robbery humorous
FOUND IN: US(MW)
REFERENCES (1 citation):
ADDITIONAL: Richard M. Dorson, _Buying the Wind: Regional Folklore in the United States_, University of Chicago Press, 1964, pp. 394-397, "The Hold-Up" (1 text, tune refernced)
Roud #2101
CROSS-REFERENCES:
cf. "The Irish Washerwoman" (tune)
cf. "Billy O'Rourke" (plot)
cf. "The Railroad Corral" (tune and references for the "Irish Washerwoman" tune)
NOTES [17 words]: Roud lumps this with "Billy O'Rourke"; there is plot similarity, but I'm not sure about the text - RBW
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