327-329, "When Johnny Comes Marching Home" (1 text, 1 tune) The Originals © by Arnold Rypens - WHEN JOHNNY COMES MARCHING HOME AGAIN When Johnny comes marching home | Library of Congress : Joseph Bryan Geoghegan, travelling singer, 1800sįor a number of (mainly American) versions, the melody of the first lines of each stanza resembles the song "When Johnny Comes Marching Home" published in 1863. Geoghegan in 1854 ( note : though he had Irish anchestors, Geoghegan was really born in England, with a mother from Manchester) But just before that it was popularized by the Irish stage singer J.B. It was published in Boston about 1854-56 by Oliver Ditson. In fact in the book "Folksongs of the Catskills" Peggy Seeger refers to a sheet-music copy of "Pat Works on the Railway" with a different tune. : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive In "The American Songbag" (1927), the writer Carl Sandburg claims that "Pat Works on the Railway" has been published in sheet music since the early 1850s. SEE: Reminiscences of a Liverpool shipowner, 1850-1920 Forwood, remembers hearing the song being sung in 1857 on the Liverpool Pierhead SEE: On board the "Rocket" : Adams, Robert Chamblet, Adams published a version of the song, which suggests an English origin. In 1879, on page 321 of "On Board the Rocket", Robert C. So the "Irish" version of the song might be a decade or so older than the "American" version and also had a different melody (so NOT the "When Johnny Comes Marching Home" tune, which accompainied the American version, which was published in 1863). The song most likely originated around or even before the 1850's in England, when Irish navvies were working on the Liverpool and Manchester railways and emigrated to America, when the Irish navvies were recruited to participate in building American canals and railways. There are numerous titles of the song including, "Pat Works on the Railway" / "Paddy on the Railway" / "Fi-Li-Mi-Oo-Re-Ay" / "Paddy Works on the Erie" and "Working on the Railway" The song portrays an Irish worker working on a railroad. Historically, it was often sung as a sea chanty. "Poor Paddy Works on the Railway" is a popular Irish folk and American folk song.
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