Wearin the Britches - Paul Brady 1976

Paul sings this ode to traditional values with Andy Irvine and Donal Lunny in the Embankment, Tallaght.

[@Feon83]

As a Greek buzuki player(and a Greek)I must say,I couldn t be more happy that buzuki have found it s place into such a beautiful music tradition like the Irish one.I also love the Irish version of the instrument.

[@michaelpowderly5514]

Well said man....music and musical instruments are ....like humanity..... Universal...

[@musashidanmcgrath]

When Andy Irvine was a teenager he hitch hiked around Greece and Bulgaria and that's where the the instrument made its way back into traditional Irish music.:D

[@blasketboy]

Andy was almost sinkin into the Plains of Kildare for a minute

[@drummerboy1390]

What would you give to be in that audience? Sheer genius all round.

[@johnmccann8319]

What a treasure Paul is!Brilliant!💚

[@seamusnolan4083]

One of the many songs he got from frank heart

[@mrleekel]

Fantastic....loved near the end ,when the barmaid is collecting glasses'..those were the days

[@sakkorig]

Such an amazing song, and you can hear the middle eastern influence in the riffs they pick out. What an amazing gift these men posses.

[@vancelupton3309]

sakkori

[@gerardbreen8534]

Wow! Brilliant thanks Mick for this 😊

[@pattiern]

It also follows The Creel on Welcome Here Kind Stranger. Great tune.

[@patrickryan1821]

My God, in picking style of guitar and Bouzouki MASTER!

[@NikoPacha]

+Patrick Ryan r u sure ? its bouzouki ? Awesome ...

[@patrickryan1821]

Yes that instrument is a Bouzouki

[@floodersqueeze]

I'd say Chris Thile is a bit more of a 'MASTER' than this guy is...

[@buzon1658]

+Ryan Johnson Possibly regarding the mandolin/bouzouki, but on balance, Brady comes out ahead. I might reconsider if I ever hear Thile play piano, tin whistle, guitar and sing like he had three lungs.

[@anokatomichali]

It's a Greek bouzouki, but not a very good one, I'm afraid. He deserves a 'real' instrument. :-)

[@alenlepirica7304]

So beautifull, soul music!!!

[@carffmann1]

It is rarely understood that quality music whether Jimi Hendrix or Paul Brady was not created in a cultural vacuum. This is why most of what is coming our way today as the best is not on par with cultural revolution of 60's and 70's.

[@ewaldseiland8558]

Well now we have Kanye West, Eminem, and DaBaby feat. Roddy Rich...

[@ihateyoutube8789]

I completely agree.

[@groovy56]

@@ewaldseiland8558 LMAO 🤣

[@bizzjoe]

Things have suddenly changed.

[@Elderwilliam]

excellent , have'nt heard him for long time

[@AzNpowangeFTW]

3:43 even the masters make mistakes. they're only human too

[@txsphere]

So wonderful. Thanks bilko!

[@irishfield1]

Awesome ever song Paul amazing ever tops to me ever thank you :D :D

[@michaeldineen8324]

A great performance here, by Paul Brady. There are not many versions of this song. I'd imagine that it must be a song, from his own part of Ireland. In many ways' it is really about domestic abuse' but told in a light hearted way. Does anyone agree.?

[@bastenasbroek9073]

John Tunney makes it a good song. I heard him sing it years ago when he gave a workshop on traditional singing. I like singing the song myself.

[@sathyadelmaestro5175]

@@bastenasbroek9073 are you an ashbrook? You might be my cousin

[@tommilne7864]

Beautiful

[@cheerydavie]

excellent thanks for sharing

[@sakkorig]

@mjlykos The main song is called wearin the britches of course, but the tune after is called "out the door and over the wall" i believe. its a tune of pauls own creation

[@ezekielsmukler2903]

I heard the "Wearing the Britches/Out the Door and Over the Wall" medley in this KZbin video.

[@acousticems]

Love this!

[@barrymackenna]

Gr8 stuff

[@freakinoldguy]

I'm sorry but as great as this song and Paul Brady are I just can't help but get the feeling I'm watching Danny from the Partridge Family singing it. LOL

[@nickyreynolds3326]

Very unusual to see Donal playing the guitar while Andy and Paul play bouzouki, no?

[@maxcuthbert100]

No.

[@Gajeman]

"WEARIN THE BRITCHES" O come all young men where e'er you be and listen to me lamentations I courted a girl beyond compare and I loved her with admiration At length in time she became my wife, t'was not for beauty but for riches And all the time it causes strife, to see which of us will wear the britches O Paddy Kane it is me name, me height it is five-foot-eleven And me wife is nearly not so big, she only measures four-foot-seven The hedges I have oft times stripped, I've left them bare of rods and switches And her skin that's fair sure I've turned black, but still she swears she'll wear me britches Well I am a tailor to me trade, at cutting out I am quite handy But sure all the money that I make, she lays it out on tea and brandy Now sometimes I do shout and ball with nothing going but rogues and witches Her head goes oft times to the wall, but still she swears she'll wear me britches One morning at the tea and eggs, contented sitting by the fire Well she broke the teapot on me legs and left me leaping to retire T'is now that I do shout and moan as I go hopping on me crutches Well I wished I'd broke her collar bone the day I let her wear me britches So come all young men where e'er you be, don't marry a wife if she's enchanting For if you do, you'll be like me, with other men she'll go gallanting Now my advice it is to you, to marry for love and work for riches And be sure of a wife with a civil tongue, that'll give you leave to wear your britches

[@LaureLouise63]

Thank you.

[@Gajeman]

Cheers!

[@gibbers14]

Tae, taepot :)

[@MrNyrge]

@kiltownkid the second half of the song (2.40+) is on Paul Bradys album Welcome Here Kind Stranger and is titiled Out the Door and Over the Wall i think. not sure about the first half

[@lazylazyshark]

great recording, thanks for sharing! the second part, instrumental called Out the Door and Over the Wall seems a lot more greek/mideastern than irish. Maybe I am wrong, anybody knows more about the story of this song?

[@jdilmore]

Better late than never, here's thesession's page on the tune. thesession.org/tunes/2265

[@peterholsters5640]

@ Diane Bilyeu & Kevin Moore: The instruments are common Greek bouzoukis.

[@anokatomichali]

Unfortunately not a very good one...

[@banjodeano2202]

wow....that is weird, some excellent playing going off, and then the woman is just walking around collecting beer glasses..

[@francismassacre]

@kiltownkid Just a few live video performances as far as I know. Nothing on record, not even the live ones, unless there is some rare recording that I am not familiar with.

[@jamesbradshaw3389]

I refuse to disagree with a single word that that very wise and highly intelligent person drummerboy1390 when he said Sheer genius all round. No, I refuse to agree with those wise words, it douses not matter what you do to me I will still refuse to disagree.

[@NateBerry]

We always joke before playing this tune that its our Ode to Spousal Abuse.

[@marisadwyer9084]

I was wrong this version best possible. How the fuck do they do it?

[@dulziane]

;-)

[@mjlykos]

What are the tunes?

[@ActuatedGear]

This is from a time when a wife who ran roughshod on her man not only made him a laughing stock (a serious issue when everyone knew everyone by name and family), but could in many communities lead to him being publicly ridiculed and removed from his station. He was responsible for her discipline like she was some worrisome child. Her debts and missteps were his to answer for. He faced the burden of her discipline, so he bore the responsibility of doling out hers and he was heavily restricted on it most times. Here we have the sorry tale of an unbalanced home. He married her for her money. She does not respect him because the money is hers. She does not respect his discipline because she does not need him to survive financially. In another version of the song she takes ill and he tries to mourn her, but really cant because its too great a relief to be rid of the stress. She cheats and spends as she pleases. He disciplines her. He even beats her. She does not respond. She merely keeps him around as a pet. When the pet bites her one too many times, she breaks it's leg. She not happy, and neither is he. Never marry a woman for her money is the message. Im not sure its a perfect rule-George Washington was a gigolo-but it has some real merits. All that aside, I fuckin love the song.

[@athenspirates]

George "stole" a former employers land (my ancestor Lord Fairfax)(as "winners" of the American Revolutionary War) and cherry picked the choicest spot on what amounted to most of "Virginia". .

[@BearintheWoods848]

Looks like the head off Phil Collins right at the end

[@jamesmurphy9628]

Sibeal

[@verandi3882]

I'm really interested in celtic/ bouzouki/medieval sounding music similar to the beautiful song above , so could you be nice enough to recommend me some artists who do that style or some traditional songs/pieces ,please? flute and bagpipe or any other instrument are also welcome, thank you in advance !

[@athenspirates]

Sean Tyrrell

[@handsome_jay_]

The blacksmith by planxty

[@ricstunneloftunes4288]

the two sisters, the jolly beggar, mary mack and two island swans are some rare irish folk songs theat have a sort medieval ish sound

[@verandi3882]

@Michael Halligan I apologize for my vague statement which i had made two years ago , i wasn't aware of that and didn't know anything about it , i was naive about that topic . thank you .

[@verandi3882]

@@ricstunneloftunes4288 thanks a lot pal , sick tunes

[@SS-ld8bg]

Would love to hear the woman's side of things here haha

[@puttehellstrom1982]

If she can sing and play it as well - bring it on

[@christaylor2070]

is the bouzouki instrumental after the song Macedonian or Bulgarian or some other part of the Balkans?

[@efa666]

It's an original called Out the Door and Over the Wall.

[@christaylor2070]

@@efa666 thanks!

[@lazylazyshark]

is the tuning GDAE?

[@lazylazyshark]

ADAE

[@ActuatedGear]

+Lazy Shark Seem it would be like the GBDGBD tuning used on a dobro and as an alt for some guitarists, always being openly playable as a chord and perfect for barring.

[@Robertgregormcgregor]

@@ActuatedGear But that would be too many strings..ADAD or GDAD most usual on the bouzouki for Irish tunes.

[@Baz-ro1gz]

​@@RobertgregormcgregorI believe Andy and Donal usually play the Bouzouki GDAD but Paul here plays his GDAE like a Mandolin or Tenor Banjo.

[@andyweb7779]

Is it a mandolin or a bazooki he's playing?

[@porterhall27]

bazooki

[@Robertgregormcgregor]

He's playing a Greek bouzouki retuned to Irish tuning in the key of D.

[@1dulchie113]

🇮🇪 tae and brandy

[@marisadwyer9084]

All is forgiven because it's funny.Some of the best folk songs ever are about frustrated wife beaters.

[@ActuatedGear]

Shes cheating and spending mad. Hes trying and failing to discipline her. She wont listen. Wont bow to force. What kind of man cant keep a woman in line? He never had a chance, but its still his responsibility.

[@lowslowflyer77]

Dam this makes me wanna go back to some Irish music again..A real Red Pill message also..

[@saoirserosenstock8144]

😂😂😂

[@paolofortuna7369]

Maybe irish people long time ago were greeks or oriental

[@christiangibbs8534]

My wife says that I hate this song.

[@luigizullo6947]

Never marry a woman for money or beauty. You will soon be sorry. It is a sorry day when the hen rules the roost. The physical beauty will soon be gone and so might the money.

[@BrianJMonahan]

But should the britches get equal wages? Yknow like.

[@ffionpearl5893]

The music is lovely. What a shame it glorifies the abuse of women. How revolting that the singer (and I have every respect for his talents) seems to find it amusing. I would like them to apologise for this