The Long Voyage Home 1917
The
play specifies only one song, "We Are the Boys of Wexford," sung by
Driscoll. Boisterous music has been heard offstage as the sailors
from the
S.S.
Glencairn
approach the bar. The same song will suffice. Later in the action,
an accordion offstage plays an unnamed tune accompanied by the heavy
stamping of feet and a loud whoop from Driscoll. Probably one of the
chanties like "Blow the Man Down" would serve, or a polka. "Yosephine,"
from "Anna Christie, "
has a polka rhythm. Another
possibility is "Oh, You Beautiful Doll," which the ship's
accordion player offers in The Moon of the Caribbees. Driscoll — (...roaring into song) We ar-re the byes av We-e-exford who fought wid hearrt an' han! (speaking) To hell wid Ulster! (He drinks and the others follow his example.) An' I'll strip to any man in the city av London won't dhrink to that toast. [I, 514; cf. The Personal Equation, I, 352] The Boys of Wexford - words and music by Robert Dwyer Joyce, ca. 1860 |
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