Och, rub-a-dub row-de-row, Shelah my gal. So eight years I fought without Corporal Casey. Thinks I, “You are quiet and I shall be aisey.” It was my good friend, honest Corporal Casey. That fell on my pate but they bothered me rarely.Īnd who should the first be that dropped? Why, and please you, Och, rub-a-dub row-de-row, Shelah my dear. He struck my shirts so, old Corporal Casey. On Shelah, my heart in my bosom was sinking.īut soon I was forced to look fresh as a daisyįor fear of a drubbin’ from Corporal Casey. I marched from Kilkenny, but as I was thinking Och, rub-a-dub row-de-row, Shelah my love. When I trudged away with tough Corporal Casey. My dear little Shelah I thought would run crazy Och, rub-a-dub, row-de-dow, Corporal Casey, My uncle was rich, but ne’er could be aisey (=easy) My dad kept a pig, but my mother sold whiskey. When I was at home, I was merry and frisky. Here are what seems to be the standard version: Always speed up very slowly, if you know what i mean.
Never jump from one speed to a much higher speed. Do not go faster until it is easy to play it well at that speed. When it is easy to play it at that speed, ratch up the speed a tiny notch. To do that, play whatever is giving you problems very slowly, as slowly as you need to go in order to play it well. The key is to keep practising until the thing that was hard is easy. When you’re first starting out with this stuff, everything is hard, and most of us do remember that. (And some not even then, I’m afraid.)Īnd then you get into the whole, I could answer but what if I offend, thing? For instance, my own first thought was "why would you *want* to get the notes staccato and short? Why not play them smooth and long for fun?" But that didn’t seem very helpful. So many serious players won’t really play it unless they’re being nice to a beginner who starts it up and they want to be supportive. People have even made up tons and tons of lyrics (of varying amount of hilarity and wit) to the thing. The reason that The Irish Washerwoman isn’t particularly played out much is because it has become something of a cliched tune - if someone wants an Irish sounding tune, out trots the Irish Washerwoman. Vidar, I don’t think anyone was ignoring you, really, for instance, Crannog was answering you, so it’s rather snifty of *you* to ignore *him*, yes? *grin* Also, keep in mind that sometimes people just miss posts, or don’t have any real input into someone’s question, it’s not a question of being ignored.
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