← more from
Heilo Records
We’ve updated our Terms of Use to reflect our new entity name and address. You can review the changes here.
We’ve updated our Terms of Use. You can review the changes here.

Martinmas Time​/​Hornpipe (Little Stack of Wheat)

from Live in Telemark by Andy Irvine & Lillebjørn Nilsen

/

  • Streaming + Download

    Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.

      12 NOK  or more

     

  • Buy the Full Digital Album

  • Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album

    Cover: tapestry “Gardian Valkyrie” by Borghild Georgine Kraus 1915-1982.

    Includes unlimited streaming of Live in Telemark via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
    ships out within 5 days

      149 NOK

     

lyrics

It fell out upon one Martinmas time
When snow lay on the border
There came a troop of soldiers here
To take up their winter quarters

Chorus:
With me right fol adle eedle idle a-dee-o
With me right fol adle eedle eyrie

And they've rode north and they've rode south
And they've rode o'er the border
And there they met with a nice little girl
And she was a farmer's daughter.

And they made her swear a solemn oath
With a salt tear in her eye-o
That she would come to the quarter gates
When no one did her spy-o

And she's gone to the barber's shop
To the barber's shop went soon-o
Made them cut her long yellow hair
As short as any dragoon-o

And she's gone to the tailor's shop
And dresses in soldiers clothes-o
Two long pistols down by her side
A nice little boy was she-o

And she's gone to the quarter gates
And loudly she does call-o
There comes a troop of soldiers here
And we must have lodgings all-o

And the quartermaster he comes down
He gives her half a crown-o
Go find your lodgings in the town
for tonight there is no room-o

But she's moved nearer to the gates
Louder she does call-o
O Room, room, you gentlemen,
We must have lodgings all-o

And the quartermaster he comes down
He gives her eighteen pence-o
Go find your lodgings in the town
For tonight there comes a wench-o

And she took a whistle from her side
And she blew it loud and shrill-o
You're all very free with your eighteen pence
But you're not for a girl at all-o

And she took the garters from her knees
The ribbons from her hair-o
Tied them around the quarter gates
As a token she's been there-o

And when they found that it was her
They tried to have her taken
But she's clapped her spurs to her horse's side
She's galloped home a maiden.

credits

from Live in Telemark, released June 18, 2021
Traditional tune

license

all rights reserved

tags

about

Andy Irvine image

Andy Irvine

Irish singer-songwriter and traditional musician. He plays bouzouki, mandola, mandolin, hurdy-gurdy, harmonica and sometimes guitar.

Sweeney's Men, Planxty, Andy Irvine & Paul Brady, Patrick Street, Mozaik, LAPD, Usher's Island and more. ... more

shows

contact / help

Contact Andy Irvine

Streaming and
Download help

Redeem code

Report this track or account

Andy Irvine recommends:

If you like Andy Irvine, you may also like:

Bandcamp Daily  your guide to the world of Bandcamp

On Bandcamp Radio

Fabiana Palladino stops by to talk about her mesmeric debut LP.
listen now