..sitting in a pub hearing my dad play this on a mandolin has to be the one of the best things ever!....i miss those days...up the raggle taggle gypsies!!
I am a little beggarman a beggin' I have been For three score or more in this little Isle of Green I'm known from the Liffey, down to Segue I'm known by the name of old Johnny Dhu Of all the trades that's goin sure beggin' is the best For when a man is tired he can sit down and rest Beg for his dinner he has nothin' else to do Only cut around the corner with his old rigadoo I slept in a barn way down at Currabawn A wet night came on and I slept until the dawn With holes in the roof and the rain coming through The rats and the cats they were playing peekaboo When who should awaken but the woman of the house With her white spotty apron and her calico blouse She began to frighten and I said "Boo! Arrah don't be afraid ma'am, it's only Johnny Dhu" I met a little flaxy-haired girl one day "Good morning, little flaxy-haired girl", I did say "Good morning, little beggarman, a-how do you do With your rags and your bags and your old rigadoo?" "I'll buy a pair of leggings, a collar and a tie And a nice young lady I'll fetch bye and bye I'll buy a pair of goggles and colour them blue And and old-fashioned lady, I will make her too" Over the road with my pack on my back Over the fields with my great heavy sack With holes in my shoes and my toes peeping through Singing "Skinny-ma-rink-a-doodle-o and old Johnny Dhu I must be going to bed, for it's getting late at night The fire's all raked and out goes the light So now you've heard the story of me old rigadoo "It's goodbye and God be with you", said old Johnny Dhu
..sitting in a pub hearing my dad play this on a mandolin has to be the one of the best things ever!....i miss those days...up the raggle taggle gypsies!!
God bless caiman God bless all the dubliners God bless ireland
Is that some cut of an auld crocodile
RIP Ciaran
Hier sang bob lynch
bursting with heart
I wish they had the Ian and Sylvia version somewhere here...they did a fantastic job of this song.
love it
we might do this song for choir but obvously in a different version. but i'm soooo excited if we do cuz i love this song
Did you ever do this? I' love to see it.
like it my grandparents loved this kind of Irish tunes along with the Scottish of course :)
I never heard this song by Ciaran before.
I am a little beggarman a beggin' I have been
For three score or more in this little Isle of Green
I'm known from the Liffey, down to Segue
I'm known by the name of old Johnny Dhu
Of all the trades that's goin sure beggin' is the best
For when a man is tired he can sit down and rest
Beg for his dinner he has nothin' else to do
Only cut around the corner with his old rigadoo
I slept in a barn way down at Currabawn
A wet night came on and I slept until the dawn
With holes in the roof and the rain coming through
The rats and the cats they were playing peekaboo
When who should awaken but the woman of the house
With her white spotty apron and her calico blouse
She began to frighten and I said "Boo!
Arrah don't be afraid ma'am, it's only Johnny Dhu"
I met a little flaxy-haired girl one day
"Good morning, little flaxy-haired girl", I did say
"Good morning, little beggarman, a-how do you do
With your rags and your bags and your old rigadoo?"
"I'll buy a pair of leggings, a collar and a tie
And a nice young lady I'll fetch bye and bye
I'll buy a pair of goggles and colour them blue
And and old-fashioned lady, I will make her too"
Over the road with my pack on my back
Over the fields with my great heavy sack
With holes in my shoes and my toes peeping through
Singing "Skinny-ma-rink-a-doodle-o and old Johnny Dhu
I must be going to bed, for it's getting late at night
The fire's all raked and out goes the light
So now you've heard the story of me old rigadoo
"It's goodbye and God be with you", said old Johnny Dhu
Oh, I love this!
Rigadoo is many things. But in this case its a make shift bag carried on a stick holding. It can also be sa walking stick or cane
I have Welsh, Spanish, Scottish and English so I'm a bit of a variety too :)
I know it's a real Clancy's classic but I love this one too.
So good night and God be with you, from auld Ronnie Drew!:)
cool
2 people's rigadoos broke
RIP Luke Kelly!
Hier singt ciaran bourke
they combined the second and fourth verses. was really good, but I was sad that it wasn't the whole song.
@EvilIrishNinjaPirate LOL - the English is only tiny (hopefully ;) )
The greatest version was the 78 by the Flanagan Brothers.
What's a rigadoo?
+James Carey A Cart homeless people dragged with them...like a shopping cart
Please someone tell me... what in heck is a rigadoo??!!
Soup. Or a dance. Or something.
Could be anything
It is a shopping cart that a homeless person pushes around.
@@lukedurkan2656 shopping cart 🤣
@rhyfelwrDuw That's okay, we'll forgive you your English side ;)
This is Tommy Makem's signature song for me and although this is good, no one will ever outshine Tommy Makem singing it. :)
Are you sure this is Ciaran Bourke ? It rather sounds to me like the little fellow who was with them for a couple of years in the 60s, Bob Lynch.
Most definitely Ciaran.
Bill Wixon that is Cirian
Never Ciaran, Lynch.
It’s Ciarán, the song is from here. czcams.com/video/dXPDld593us/video.html
Stimmt! Das war bob!
Almost as good as the Flanagan Brothers
tomdoh345 almost! 😉
An old English tune, love it!
Robber barons.