With your rags and you bags and you old rig-a-doo’ ’Good morning little beggarman, a how do you do ‘Good morning little flaxy-haired girl’ I did say With her white spotty apron and her calico blouseĪrrah, don’t be afraid mam it’s only Johnny Dhu’. When who should awaken but the woman of the house

With holes in the roof and the rain coming throughĪnd the rats and the cats, they were playing peek-a-boo I slept in the barn way down at CaurabawnĪ wet night came on and I slept ’till the dawn

Only cut around the corner with his old rig-a-doo. (He can) beg for his dinner, he has nothing else to do Of all the trade’s that’s going now sure begging is the bestįor when a man is tired, he can sit down and rest I am a little beggarman and begging I ha’ been, (aye)įor three score or more in this little isle of greenĪnd I’m known by the name of old Johnny Dhu A recording of their classic spirited duet is available commercially. Here’s a version sung by Sarah Makem and made famous by her son Tommy. …sounds good…Why not send us the words, John K? I had to do some blinking for a bit to get the tune out. “Danny Pearl’s Favorite,” corrected the young fiddler across from me, picking up the tune. “Oh, yes, Red-Haired Boy,” I said, picking up my bow. And then I more or less forgot about it, because you really don’t hear Red-Haired Boy at Irish sessions, at least around here, very often.īut I was at an unfamiliar session recently, one where they played some old time as well, and someone started playing Red-Haired Boy. So I suggested it to The Session, and many players wrote to say that they’d start spreading the usage of the new tune name to honor Danny Pearl. Many tunes, of course, have more than one name, and many of those tune names are ****’s Favorite. His favorite tune was said to have been “The Red-Haired Boy.” Quite a few players got the idea all at the same time: what if we started spreading another name for the tune? Danny Pearl’s Favorite. When journalist Daniel Pearl was savagely killed by terrorists who had taken him hostage in Pakistan, the papers and other news organizations discovered that Danny Pearl was also a fiddler - bluegrass and oldtime, mainly, but he loved playing all kinds of music. This one should actually be attributed to muddflat, Andy (Mcbear), Carl Conn and Manfred (Bloomfield), I guess, as at - but I had a bit of a kicker to it about a month ago, which I forgot about until Emily posted her story.

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