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Bachgen Bach O Dincer

from A Celebration of Twenty by IONA

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She bosun dy row ayns Dover s’chie/Bachgen Bach o Dincer (Little Tinker Lad)/The Teapot Jig (Dick Lee)
- Manx/Welsh trad
An ancient Manx march precedes a Welsh song about a beloved tinker who for many years wandered through the land, doing his work cheaply and cheerfully, until one day he comes no more. The chorus is basically nonsense words that seem to echo an English song popular in the Victorian era, The Knickerbocker Line, which plagiarized the tune of the Welsh song. It’s probable that Welsh speakers parodied the English words that they imperfectly understood. Dick Lee’s Teapot Jig, actually a slip jig, seemed to fit in handily, after which Andrew plays with the time signatures of the march to lead us out of the musical maze we create.

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BACHGEN BACH O DINCER

Chorus:
Potsiar peipar twigar owns agen
The potsiar o the peipar
O the knickerbocker line.
La di da di da di
Hock it on ddy chen,
The potsiar o ddy pipar
O ddy knickerbocker line.

Bachgen bach o dincer
Yn myned hyd y wlad.
Cario’i dwls a’i dacle’,
Neud ei waith yn rhad;
Yn ei law ‘roedd haearn,
Ac ar ei gefn ‘roedd bocs,
Pwt o getyn yn ei geg
A than ei drwyn ‘roedd locs.
Chorus

Holi hwn ac arall
Ple’r aeth y tincer mwyn,
Gyda’i becyn ar ei gefn,
A chetyn dan ei drwyn.
Bachen bach o dincer
Ni welir yn y wlad;
Mae’n golled ar ei ôl
I ‘neud ei waith yn rhad.
Chorus
© 2003 Barnaby Productions Inc.

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from A Celebration of Twenty, released May 15, 2006
Barbara Tresidder Ryan (lead vocals, Celtic bouzouki, bodhrán)
Bernard Argent (wooden flute, whistles)
Chuck Lawhorn (bass guitar, vocals)
Andrew Dodds (fiddle)

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IONA Washington, D.C.

IONA has been taking its unique brand of traditional Celtic music to festivals, arts centers, schools & house concerts all over North America and Europe since 1986, blending music from the various Celtic traditions with stories and a little humor - Barbara Ryan (vocals, bouzouki, bodhran), Bernard Argent (flute, doumbek), Chuck Lawhorn (bass), Jim Queen (fiddle, banjo) & Kathleen Larrick (dance). ... more

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