Growing Up Poor in Irish Boston
"Growing Up Poor in Irish Boston” is a podcast series, colored with humor, nostalgia and pathos. It’s about a Boston tenement kid, born in 1939, clawing his way out of poverty by being hard-working, creative, persistent, entrepreneurial and by taking risks often. There are also stories of my later life in Boston, Cambridge and New England. If you like old Boston stories or Irish-American stories or old Cambridge stories, this is your podcast. If you like Pull-Yourself-Up-By-The-Bootstrap type stories and/or down-to-earth philosophy with a Roman Catholic, funny and relatively conservative slant, then this is for you.
I am Roderick Patrick Murphy, born into a large, loving Irish family in Boston, widowed after 50+ happy years. So I am now doing some writing, volunteering and learning how to be a bachelor again.
Growing Up Poor in Irish Boston
Episode 117 “Irish Songs & Will You Go, Lassie Go & The Rest of the Story
Episode 117 “Irish Songs & Will You Go, Lassie Go & The Rest of the Story.”
“Will You Go, Lassie, Go?"is a Scottish/Irish folk song. The lyrics and melody are a variant of the song "The Braes of Balquhither" by Scottish poet Robert Tannahill and Scottish composer Robert Archibald Smith. It was adapted by Belfast, Ireland musician Francis McPeake into "Will You Go, Lassie Go” and first recorded by McPeake’s nephew in 1957. So while its roots are in Scotland, the song is widely considered an Irish-Scottish folk tune.
