Dan, Dan, the funny wee man, rhyme / Ann Clarke & [Brian] Clarke, speech in English
| ITMA Reference | 239944 |
| Creator | Clarke, Ann, speech in English ; Clarke, [Brian], speech in English |
| Contributor | Shields, Hugh, collector |
| Date | August 1966 |
| Location | Clogherhead, Co Louth |
| Type | Sound |
| Extent | 1 computer file (MP3 file, 9 sec.) : digital, stereo |
| Collection | Hugh Shields Collection |
| Subject | Ireland: Speech in English |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Irish Traditional Music Archive |
| Copyright | Performers, Hugh Shields |
| Source | [HS 6122] |
| Roud Number | 19087 |
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Dan, Dan, the funny wee man
He washed the hair in the frying-pan
He brushed his hair by the leg of a chair
Dan, Dan, the funny wee man.
Very common, usually recited. For other versions see N Douglas’s London street games (1931:29); Opie and Opie’s The lore and language of schoolchildren (1967:13, 159); L Daiken’s Out goes she (1963:32); JTR Ritchie’s The singing street (1964:107). a version from Salford is recorded on Ewan McColl and Dominic Behan’s The singing streets, (1958: Folkways LP FW 8501), and was printed with a melody in the Journal of the Irish Folk Song Society 14 (1914:36).
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