Author Topic: Add: Drill, Ye Tarriers, Drill


dmcg

Posted - 11 Sep 05 - 06:28 pm

Ev'ry morning at seven o'clock
There's twenty tarriers a-working at the rock,
And the boss comes along and he says "Keep still,
And come down heavy with the cast iron drill."

(Chorus)
And drill ye tarriers, drill,
Drill, ye tarriers, drill.
And you work all day for the sugar in your tea,
Down behind the railway.
And drill, ye tarriers, drill.
And blast and fire!

Our new foreman's name was John McCann,
I'll tell you sure he was a blame mean man,
Lasy week a premature blast went off
And a mile in the went big Jim Goff.

When the next pay-day came around,
Jim Goff a dollar short was found.
When he asked what for, he got this reply,
"You were docked for the time you were up in the sky."


Source: Singing Together, Spring 1978, BBC Publications


Notes:

American.




masato sakurai

Posted - 11 Sep 05 - 06:57 pm

This (at the Levy Collection) seems to be the original:

Title: Irish Comic Song by Thomas Casey. Drill Ye Tarrier.
Composer, Lyricist, Arranger: na
Publication: New York: Frank Harding's Music House, Office, 1293 Broadway, Corner of 33d St., 1888.
Form of Composition: strophic with chorus
Instrumentation: piano and voice
First Line: Oh! ev'ry morn at seven o'clock there are twenty tarriers on the rock
First Line of Chorus: Then drill, ye tarrier drill
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Call No.: Box: 136 Item: 071







GEST

Posted - 11 Sep 05 - 08:11 pm

Is there any relationship between this song and John Devine's Drill, Ye Heroes, Drill collected by Kenneth Peacock in volume 3, page 781 of Songs Of The Newfoundland Outports ?

GEST Songs Of Newfoundland And Labrador


GEST Songs Of Newfoundland And Labrador


masato sakurai

Posted - 11 Sep 05 - 08:34 pm

"This native Newfoundland song ["Drill Ye Heroes, Drill!"] is patterned after an American railroad song." (Peacock, vol. 3, p. 782)






masato sakurai

Posted - 14 Sep 05 - 07:12 am

"Although historians of popular music admit that the song may be older, 'Drill, Ye Tarriers, Drill' is generally attributed to Thomas F. Casey. The origianl sheet music, published by Frank Harding's Music House in 1888, bears no claim of authorship; it simply states, 'The Rousing Comic Song as sung by Mr. Thomas Casey.' [...] I have found no incontrovertible evidence to push the song back earlier than 1888; however, a comment by John P. Davies in his 1896 history of the Union Pacific strongly suggests that it is considerably older." (Norm Cohen, Long Steel Rail: The Railroad in American Folksong, 2nd ed., University of Illinois Press, 2000, p. 555)






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