{"id":9059,"date":"2020-07-01T05:11:43","date_gmt":"2020-07-01T09:11:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/?p=9059"},"modified":"2020-07-01T07:16:17","modified_gmt":"2020-07-01T11:16:17","slug":"pretty-peggy-o","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/?p=9059","title":{"rendered":"Pretty Peggy-O"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden\/php\/images\/Peggy-O.png\" width=\"500\/\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"audio\">\n<div class=\"alignright caption\"><a href=\"?page_id=6069\">How do I download this Mp3?<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"audio_link\">Mp3: <a href=\"http:\/\/ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden\/php\/music\/Peggy-O.mp3\"><br \/>\nPretty Peggy-O &#8211; Click To Play <\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"about\">\n<p>Pretty Peggy-O is about the unrequited love between a captain of Irish dragoons for a beautiful Scottish girl in the fictional town of Fennario. The narration is from the voice of one of the captain&#8217;s soldiers. The captain promises the lady safety and happiness, but she refuses the captain&#8217;s advances saying she would not marry a penniless soldier. The captain subsequently leaves Fennario and later dies of a broken heart.<\/p>\n<p>This tune was used in the song &#8220;Oh Freedom&#8221; and the last line &#8220;Before I&#8217;d be a slave, I&#8217;d Be buried in my grave&#8221; comes from that.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m amused that a lazy way to make lyrics rhyme is to put a -O after each last word in a sentence.<\/p>\n<div class=\" lyrics-header\" =\"\"=\"\">\n<div class=\" lyrics-header\" =\"\"=\"\">Peggy-O<\/p>\n<p>[E] As we rode out to [A] Fennario,[E] as we rode on to Fennario [B7]<br \/>\n[A] Our captain fell in [C#m] love with a lady like a [A] dove<br \/>\n[E] And called her by a name, pretty [A] Peggy-O.[E]<\/p>\n<p>Will you marry me pretty Peggy-O, will you marry me pretty Peggy-O<br \/>\nIf you will marry me, I&#8217;ll set your cities free<br \/>\nAnd free all the people in the are-O.<\/p>\n<p>I would marry you sweet William-O, I would marry you sweet William-O<br \/>\nI would marry you but your guineas are too few<br \/>\nAnd I fear my mama would be angry-O.<\/p>\n<p>What would your mama think pretty Peggy-O,<br \/>\nWhat would your mama think pretty Peggy-O,<br \/>\nWhat would your mama think if she heard my guineas clink<br \/>\nSaw me marching at the head of my soldiers-O<\/p>\n<p>Come steppin&#8217; down the stairs pretty Peggy-O,<br \/>\nCome steppin&#8217; down the stairs pretty Peggy-O,<br \/>\nCome steppin&#8217; down the stairs combin&#8217; back your yellow hair<br \/>\nBid a last farewell to your William-O.<\/p>\n<p>Sweet William he is dead pretty Peggy-O, sweet William he<br \/>\nis dead pretty Peggy-O,<br \/>\nSweet William he is dead and he died for a maid<br \/>\nAnd he&#8217;s buried in the Louisiana country-O.<\/p>\n<p>As we rode out to Fennario, as we rode out to Fennario<br \/>\nOur captain fell in love with a lady like a dove,<br \/>\nAnd called her by a name, pretty Peggy-O.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How do I download this Mp3? Mp3: Pretty Peggy-O &#8211; Click To Play Pretty Peggy-O is about the unrequited love between a captain of Irish dragoons for a beautiful Scottish girl in the fictional town of Fennario. The narration is from the voice of one of the captain&#8217;s soldiers. The captain promises the lady safety &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/?p=9059\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Pretty Peggy-O&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,10,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-irishbritish","category-love","category-tragedy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9059","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9059"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9059\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9075,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9059\/revisions\/9075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}