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The Night Before Larry Was Stretched
"The Night Before Larry Was Stretched" is an Irish execution ballad written in the Newgate cant.
==History==
The song is in ''The Festival of Anacreon'',〔''The Festival of Anacreon'', 7th ed., (Part 2) p. 177, 1789 (and a later undated edition of 1790 or 1791)〕 with tune direction "To the hundreds of Drury I write." It is also listed in Colm Ó Lochlainn's ''Irish Street Ballads'' and Frank Harte's ''Songs of Dublin''.
Donagh MacDonagh gives the following sleeve note 'One of a group of Execution Songs written in Newgate Cant or Slang Style in the 1780s, others being ''The Kilmainham Minuet'', ''Luke Caffrey's Ghost'' and ''Larry's Ghost'' in which, as promised in the seventh stanza of the present ballad, Larry comes "in a sheet to sweet Molly"!' The Newgate Cant or Slang Style is not unique to Dublin and all the cant and slang is to be found in Partridge's ''A Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English'' (1937). Nubbing cheat or Nubbin chit is cant for the gallows, while Darkmans is cant for night. Joyce, working out of Thomas Dekker's ''The Gul's Hornbook and The Belman of London'' (1608), wrote:
White thy fambles, red thy gan
And thy quarrons dainty is.
Couch a hogshead with me then.
In the Darkmans clip and kiss.〔James Joyce, ''Ulysses'', p. 59, ISBN 978-1840226355〕
The ballad is estimated to have been written around 1816. Will (Hurlfoot) Maher, a shoemaker from Waterford, wrote the song; Dr Robert Burrowes, the Dean of Saint Fin Barre's Cathedral in Cork, to whom it has been so often attributed, certainly did not. In ''Ballads from the Pubs of Ireland'', p. 29, James N Healy attributes the song to a William Maher, (Hurlfoot Bill), but doesn't note when Maher lived. However, the song is attributed to a 'Curren' in ''The Universal Songster'', 1828, this possibly being the witty barrister John Philpot Curran or JW Curren.
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