The Tinker and the Ass

This song was sung by Geordie Hanna. Every year in Derrytresk, Co: Tyrone a singing weekend is still held in his honour.

MELODY

 

HARMONY 1

 

HARMONY 2

 

MELODY and HARMONY

 

Choir singing (28th November 2016)

 

WORDS

thetinkerandtheass

A tinker and his loving wife through Newry town did pass
The tinker he got drunk and left his wife to mind the ass
The ass was starved with hunger and could hardly hold his feet
So she sold him to a candy-man who lived near Market Street

Chorus
Singing gladly fol the di do, fol dol the day

And when the Tinker he awoke, from out his drunken sleep
To his loving wife Judy, I am sure he then did creep (he)
Put his hand into his pocket, and it was scarce of brass
Saying ‘Go and get a stone of oats, and give it to the ass’

‘Oh no dear John,’ says she ‘the ass will never trouble you,
For I have sold the ass, and I have drunk the money too’
He woke up with his mallet, and hit her o’er the brain
‘Bedad’ says he ‘you’ll never sell an ass on me again’.

Arrangement by Brona McVittie