Challeeny vacca shu sheorshe
| TYPE | 3 - Complex Melody |
| TOPIC | Comic |
| TUNE STRUCTURE | A16 B16 + var. |
| VERSE STRUCTURE | 1v 4l surviving |
| TIME SIGNATURE | 34 |
| TONAL CENTRE | A |
| INCIPIT | GGB♭GFGGB♭GFE♭E♭' |
| GENRE | Amhrán Mór |
| TEXT SOURCE | Bunting Notebooks. Special Collections, QUB Library. MS 4.26 11 |
| TUNE SOURCE | A Collection of the Most Celebrated Irish Tunes (Dublin: John and William Neal, 1724), p.18 |
| FIRST LINE | A chailínigh, 'chailínigh, 'bhfaca sibh Seóirse |
| NOTATED INCIPIT | |
| Only one verse of this comic song survives. See Nicholas Carolan’s modern edition of Celebrated Irish Tunes (1986; 2020 revised ed.), p.94. | |
A chailínigh, ‘chailíngh, ‘bhfaca sibh SeóirseA chailínigh, ‘chailíngh, ‘bhfaca sibh Seóirse,Seanduine liath is é ‘síor-dhol ann óige?B’aite leis cailín ‘bheith aige ina sheomra,Píopa tobac agus canna maith beorach.QUB Bunting MS 26/11 (Suggested in Nicholas Carolan, 2010, p.94)
Girls, girls, have you seen George, A grey old man who is always getting younger? He loves to have a girl with him in his room, A pipe of tobacco and a good can of beer.(Translation in Nicholas Carolan 2010, p.94)