The walls of Jerusalem, song / Dermot Leahy, singing in English
ITMA Reference | 55060 |
Creator | Leahy, Dermot, singing in English |
Contributor | Shields, Hugh, collector |
Date | 4 July 1968 |
Location | Hugh Shields’s house, Dublin |
Type | Sound |
Extent | 1 computer file (MP3 file, 2 min., 21 sec.) : digital, stereo |
Collection | Hugh Shields Collection |
Subject | Ireland: Singing in English |
Language | English |
Publisher | Irish Traditional Music Archive |
Copyright | Performers, Hugh Shields |
Source | 1012-ITMA-REEL [HS 6810] |
Roud Number | 4571 |
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Oh the poor man lived outside the walls of Jerusalem
Glory Hallelujah hi-oh jerrum
The rich man lived inside the walls of Jerusalem
Glory Hallelujah hi-oh jerrum
The poor man went to the rich man’s door-ium
Glory Hallelujah hi-oh jerrum
The poor man asked for a breadie and a cheese-ium
Glory Hallelujah hi-oh jerrum
The rich man said ‘I’ll call the police-ium’
Glory Hallelujah hi-oh jerrum
Hi-oh jerrum, hi-oh jerrum
Skiddle a mink a doodle um, skiddle a mink a doodle um
Glory Hallelujah hi-oh jerrum.
Now the poor man died and he went straight to heaven-ium
Glory Hallelujah hi-oh jerrum
He was fooling with the angels at a quarter past eleven-ium
Glory Hallelujah hi-oh jerrum
Hi-oh jerrum, hi-oh jerrum
Skiddle a mink a doodle um, skiddle a mink a doodle um
Glory Hallelujah hi-oh jerrum
Now the rich man died and he didn’t fare so well-ium
Glory Hallelujah hi-oh jerrum
He couldn’t go to heaven, so he had to go to hell-ium
Glory Hallelujah hi-oh jerrum
Now the rich man asked for a whiskey and a sod-ium
Glory Hallelujah hi-oh jerrum
The devil only shouted, ‘Shovel on the coal-ium.'
Glory Hallelujah hi-oh jerrum
Hi-oh jerrum, hi-oh jerrum
Skiddle a mink a doodle um, skiddle a mink a doodle um
Glory, Hallelujah, hi-oh jerrum
Now the moral of my story is, the richie and the poor-ium
Glory Hallelujah hi-oh jerrum
We’re all stony broke, so we’ll all go to heaven-ium
Glory Hallelujah hi-oh jerrum
Hi-oh jerrum, hi-oh jerrum
Skiddle a mink a doodle um, skiddle a mink a doodle um
Glory Hallelujah hi-oh jerrum.
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Learnt from his father, who came from Cork. Whether this derives from the serious “Dives and Lazarus” (Child no 56) or direct from the Bible (Luke XVI), it is obviously modern and facetious. A snatch corresponding to lines 6–7 is on So early in the morning, ed. Diane Hamilton (1962:Tradition LP TLP 1024) [?]; a larger fragment was learnt by Gerald Durrell in childhood from a Greek doctor (see Durrell, My family and other animals [1963:140, Shields Index 420]).
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