Mrs. Murphy's Chowder

Subject: Mrs. Murphy's Chowder
From: Lee Shore
Date: 17 Aug 01 - 04:27 AM

Anyone out there have the compleat lyrics for "Who Threw the Overalls in Mrs. Murphy's Chowder?"

Subject: RE: Mrs. Murphy's Chowder
From: GUEST,Martin Ryan
Date: 17 Aug 01 - 05:05 AM

Several versions in the Digital Tradition, accessible throuigh the Search functions. Here's one

Regards

Subject: RE: Mrs. Murphy's Chowder
From: masato sakurai
Date: 17 Aug 01 - 05:37 AM

And here with music. If this children'song (also here and here) is not what you want, this, I believe, is it.

Subject: RE: Mrs. Murphy's Chowder
From: Bat Goddess
Date: 17 Aug 01 - 09:05 AM

I've also got it (with music) in several books of popular & folk songs from '30s and '60s and can photocopy it if you need it.

Bat Goddess

Subject: RE: Mrs. Murphy's Chowder
From: Charley Noble
Date: 17 Aug 01 - 09:43 AM

Masato, that's an incredible film clip of the chowder song.

Subject: RE: Mrs. Murphy's Chowder
From: ard mhacha
Date: 17 Aug 01 - 09:45 AM

My old Aunt in Pittsburgh, born in Ireland, Hated that song, her US son-in-law teased her by merely humming it. And because it belittled the Irish. I got in her good books by telling her it belittled the Writer. Slan Ard Mhacha.

Subject: RE: Mrs. Murphy's Chowder
From: Lee Shore
Date: 17 Aug 01 - 01:03 PM

Thanks,all, for the lyrics. ard mhacha, I can relate. My grandfather, from Kilkenny, also hated the song for ridiculing the Irish. Grandad could still remember the "No Irish Need Apply" signs that greeted him when he got off the boat, and the vicious caricatures in the papers, and the reference to the police van as a "Paddy Wagon." To call him a "Mick" was to invite a punch in the eye. It's interesting how subsequent generations of Irish Americans, politically empowered and socially accepted, not subject to the bigotry and hatred our immigrant ancestors knew, came to take pride in and laugh at the stereotypes. Once a group is no longer persecuted, the insults become a source of pride. Consider Notre Dame's nickname and mascot. Sadly, once they entered the "Mainstream," many Irish became the primary tormentors of the next group of arriving immigrants. Some of the worst bigots are those who were only recently victims. Sad, that.

Subject: RE: Mrs. Murphy's Chowder
From: ard mhacha
Date: 17 Aug 01 - 01:08 PM

Lee Shore, I agree, espically your last statment, the old theme as they say in Ireland, a Penny looking down on a halfpenny. Slan Ard Mhacha.

Subject: RE: Mrs. Murphy's Chowder
From: Marymac90
Date: 17 Aug 01 - 01:08 PM

There is a very good book out on that topic, called _How the Irish Became White_. If you want me to find you the author, etc, PM me.

Subject: RE: Mrs. Murphy's Chowder
From: GUEST,david meredith
Date: 08 Sep 03 - 11:16 AM

Does anbody know the name of the singer who recorded a parody of "Who Threw The Overalls" called "Who threw the Benzedrine In Mrs Murphy's Ovaltine"?   david

Subject: RE: Mrs. Murphy's Chowder
From: bet
Date: 08 Sep 03 - 03:31 PM

We have a version of this song in our 3rd grade McGraw-Hill singing books. I know it's not what you want but I always think it is fun to let the kids know that the songs they are singing are being sung around the world by various people. bet