Johnny McEldoo

DESCRIPTION: McEldoo and friends are on a drinking spree. They stop at Swann's for food and McEldoo eats everything in sight. McEldoo thinks the bill too high and starts a fight. The police arrive and march the boys away. The boys pay the bill and go home
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1958 (Fowke-TraditionalSingersAndSongsFromOntario)
KEYWORDS: fight drink food humorous police brawl
FOUND IN: Britain(Scotland(Aber)) Ireland Canada(Ont)
REFERENCES (1 citation):
Fowke-TraditionalSingersAndSongsFromOntario 33, "The Spree" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #3390
RECORDINGS:
Tom Brandon, "The Spree" (on ONEFowke01)
The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem, "Johnny McEldoo" (on IRClancyMakem01)
Jimmy McBeath, "Johnny McIndoe" (on Voice14)
NOTES [112 words]: Fowke-TraditionalSingersAndSongsFromOntario, p. 179, suggests that this is originally a music hall song, but cannot point to a source.
Possibly the ultimate source is the song "The Jolly Irishman," beginning "I am a jolly Irishman, from Ireland I came, If you you want to know me more, Paty Murphy is my name," with a chorus that ends "There was Mike and Dan, And Mary Anne and Pat McCann, There was Toole, the fool, and Pat Drumgoole and me." That song is Roud #2319, and some versions of what appear to be this song are also filed under #2319. Probably the relationship between Roud #2319 and Roud #3390 needs to be re-investigated, and some of the versions reassigned. - RBW
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