Grandma Gray

Grandma Gray, rhyme / John Shields & Philip Shields, speech in English

Grandma Gray, rhyme / John Shields & Philip Shields, speech in English

ITMA Reference	239372
Creator	Shields, John, speech in English ; Shields, Philip, speech in English
Contributor	Shields, Hugh, collector
Date	January 1970
Location	Hugh Shields’s house, Dublin
Type	Sound
Extent	1 computer file (MP3 file, 39 sec.) : digital, stereo
Collection	Hugh Shields Collection
Subject	Ireland: Speech in English
Language	English
Publisher	Irish Traditional Music Archive
Copyright	Performers, Hugh Shields
Source	239372-ITMA-REEL [HS 7001]
Roud Number	19232
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Notes

Riddle answer

‘Grandma, grandma Gray
Will you let us out to play?
We’ll not go near the water
To chase the ducks away.’

Spoken

‘No, dear children, it’s a very wet day.’

Sung

‘Grandma, grandma Gray
Will you let us out to play?
We’ll not go near the water
To chase the ducks away.’

Spoken

‘Yes dear children, it’s a very fine day.'

Notes from Hugh Shields

Recorded in 1970. For other versions see A Gomme, The traditional games of England, Scotland and Ireland (vol 1, 1965:390–96). The air was noted from childhood memory as sung by Hugh Shields’s mother. The sound recording and the text above are from Hugh Shield's father and his four-year-old grandson.