Tom Judge
| TYPE | 3 - Complex Melody |
| TOPIC | Praise |
| TUNE STRUCTURE | A8 B16 |
| VERSE STRUCTURE | 3v 4l |
| TIME SIGNATURE | 64 |
| KEY SIGNATURE | ♭ |
| TONAL CENTRE | D |
| INCIPIT | GCCCB♭CB♭CD'E♭'E♭'F' |
| GENRE | Amhrán Mór |
| TEXT SOURCE | Bunting Notebooks. Special Collections, QUB Library. MS 4.7 46 |
| TUNE SOURCE | A Collection of the Most Celebrated Irish Tunes (Dublin: John and William Neal, 1724), p.11 |
| FIRST LINE | S é 'chualas dá rádh, 'réir ráighte na tíre |
| NOTATED INCIPIT | |
| Forde attributed the tune to Carolan; the words of a praise-poem which might be associated with this time are contained in Bunting’s manuscripts. Thomas Judge was High Sheriff of Leitrim (1711) and of Westmeath (1715 and 1721). For these details and other notes on the Neals’ Celebrated Irish Tunes, see Nicholas Carolan’s modern edition (1986; 2010 revised ed.). | |
Tómas Judge ‘S é ‘chualas dá rádh, ‘réir ráighte na tíre,Le Tomás gurab aoibhin a bhíon sé gach lá.Nír chreid mé na sgéala, ‘s do mheas mé gur brég é,Go bhfaca mé a thréathra, a bhéasa ‘s a nós.Níl brég ann nó uathfás ‘s an méd sin do chualas,Tá Tomás co suairc le aon nduine uasal sa damhain,Tamás na mbumpar ‘s na ndram sin gan cuntas,Níl fáth ‘bheith an amhras fán bpunc sin níos mó.‘Ólaighe deoch! Ólaighe deoch! Céd míle fáilte romhad!Ól a’ deoch! Sin suas purt! Is déan sin faoi dhó;‘S é is mion liom ‘bheith súigheamhuil le saoithibh gach tíre’,Súd mar dubhairt Tomás Judge, croidh mór gan bhrón.QUB Bunting MS 7/46 (Suggested in Nicholas Carolan, 2010, p.90)
Thomas JudgeI have heard it said, according to the common statements, About Thomas, that he is in a good humour every day. I didn’t believe the stories and thought them a lie Until I saw his characteristics, his manners, and his behaviour. There is no lie or exaggeration in all that I had heard, Thomas is as good-humoured as any nobleman on earth, Thomas of the bumpers and of those countless drams – There is no reason to be in doubt about that point any more. ‘Take a drink, take a drink, a hundred thousand welcomes to you. Take a drink, strike up a tune, and to it twice over; It is my pleasure to be sporting with the learned men of every district.’ – Thus spoke Thomas Judge, the great-hearted man without sorrow.(Translation from Nicholas Carolan, 2010, p.91)