Key signature: Gmajor
Submitted on January 3rd 2008 by slainte.
This tune has been added to 9 tunebooks.
Also known as Pussy Got The Measles.
Recordings of a tune by this name:
X: 1
T: Wallop Away The Wattle, O!
M: 2/4
L: 1/8
R: polka
K: Gmaj
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dg/e/ d/c/B/A/|GD GG/A/|B/d/B/G/ A/B/A/F/|GB G:|
|:B/d/|gg/a/ bg|f/g/a/f/ de/f/|g/f/g/a/ bg|f/g/a/f/ d2|
d/c/B/c/ dg|B/A/B/c/ dg|B/d/B/G/ A/B/A/F/|GB G:|
Wallop Away the Wattle, O! (polka)
This is a polka from East Galway learned from the duet playing of Ballinakill musicians, Kevin and Sean Moloney. It's also on Maeve Donnelly and Peadar O'Loughlin's "The Thing Itself," but misnamed "Leather Away the Wattle-O."
# Posted on January 3rd 2008 by slainte
I originally called it "the East Galway set polka" seeing as it ws the music for the East Galway set. And was told it would be played after My Love is But a Lassie/The Dark Girl Dresed in Blue. Then somewhere I found another name for it but can't recall where - "Please Give a Penny to the Poor Old Man ". I think it's also called the Ballinakill Polka.
# Posted on January 8th 2008 by LH
Pussy Got the Measles
Flute player Mike Preston, who played with the Tulla Ceili Band in the late 1950s and early 60s, calls this tune "Pussy Got the Measles" after a song sung to this air, the first verses of which are:
Pussy got the measles and she died, poor thing
She died, poor thing, oh she died, poor thing
Pussy got the measles and she died, poor thing
Oh, oh, the poor, wee thing
We got some linen and we wrapped her up
We wrapped her up, oh we wrapped her up
We got some linen and we wrapped her up
Oh, oh, the poor, wee thing
# Posted on January 18th 2008 by blarneystar