1967 | "The Humours of Whiskey" - Tom Lenihan | Restored footage of traditional Irish pub song

Humours of Whiskey / Stick to the Craytur / Paddy's Panacea / Whiskey, Me Boys

This video exists for educational purposes. The audio, which was poor in the original footage, has been significantly restored. The film has been artificially colorized. On-screen historical context and lyrics have been added.


Tom Lenihan skips several verses in this recording. Here is a recording of him singing the full version:
https://www.clarelibrary.ie/eolas/coc...

“Tom learned this from an American songbook entitled ‘617 Irish Songs and Ballads’, (circa 1900); he set it to an air he was familiar with which O’Neill called ‘Larry O’Gaff’. Tom Munnelly discovered a text of it in ‘The Emerald Isle Song Book’ (Dublin 1899) where it is credited to Joseph Lunn, and the tune given is ‘In Ireland So Frisky’. Despite being a lifelong teetotaller, Tom Lenihan said the song took his fancy the first time he came across it. In spite of the song’s popularity, Tom seems to be its sole source of it in Ireland.”
--- Jim Carroll

Here is the book where Tom Lenihan found the song:
https://www.itma.ie/digital-library/t...
(go to 2:15)

While this version of the song is not "traditional” in the sense that the tune and text don't belong together, this adaptation is typical of the way traditional music develops and evolves, and this version of the song has since entered the Irish folk repertoire.




Tom Lenihan's Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Len...
Tom Lenihan on fairy stories:    • Fairy Lore: Tom Lenihan  

Link to instrumental music:    • Larry O’Gaff  


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