Wearin' the Britches - Paul Brady 1977 video free download

123ubuntu666

Paul Brady is quite handy!

123ubuntu666

What was it that drove him on?Could it be the music?

Jim Dowling

this is criminally underrated

Chris Bane

Gerry, "to see which of us will wear the britches"

F2anno

Seen Paul last Fri in Longford, he played this and again mentioned finding it on youtube. He actually has the bouzouki on the stage with him just for this song.

Lazy Shark

I would learn the bouzuki just to play this song... :)

Live Music Vancouver

Bitches gonna wear me britches.

Seanhughesfiddle

This is one of my favourite videos on YouTube. Sheer effortless genius. Fair play to you for putting up all the class videos.

Damien S

Nice one Bilko, you've pretty much helped school me these past few years...

Robyn Sewell

beautiful!

Juicey

Played this in Drogheda tonight, couldn't believe it and sure enough he mentioned that he'd had to relearn how to play it from watching Youtube! What a bloody brilliant gig....he just gets better!!!!

Barry mc kenna

Absoulte legend- Favourite song for singin lately at mates stag do's. Goes down a storm. Wouldn't have seen it only for ya- Thanks.

QRS666

Borrowed a bouzuki from a friend a few days ago! Can anyone tell me what tuning Paul plays in? I really want to try and learn this song on the bouzuki. Will not be easy, probably not possible for me but I must give it a try! :)

TomRAFC

@youcancallmeZimmy its a bozouki, a pretty common traditional instrument

Patrick Carlin

An excellent little song, Brady is an exceptional performer, so much talent it's awesome. I don't think I've seen a musical instrument with as much mother of pearl inlay as the one Paul is playing here...Patrick (Ireland).

thirteenfingers

Computers eh? Still as dumb as a post but too smart for their own good! ;o) I did the search and found the page in question (only one result came up) Now I've just got to have a listen to Carnahan and Petrie's version... that shouldn't be too much of a chore if I can find it! :D Oh, and the runaround isn't annoying (not on your part at least) - just the way YouTube has decided to work. You could have sent it in a message - but better have the terms in the open for all to see. Slán.

francismassacre

Certainly wish the latter were the case, but the web came through for me this time. I had trouble finding them because the search engines want to autocorrect the 'wearin'' to 'wearing.' Youtube won't let me post even the semblance of a link, so if you look up "irish bouzouki paul brady" in Google and choose the link of the same name, the last commenter gives the lyrics and chords to the Danny Carnahan and Robin Petrie version. Sorry about the annoying runaround.

thirteenfingers

I've never heard a version of this other than Brady's so it's interesting to see different lyrics. Where did you get that original? Somewhere on the good ol' web or the old fashioned way, learned in a kitchen or a pub listening to some oul lad singing it and joining in where you could?

thirteenfingers

Exactly right on both the lyric and the meaning. He's stripped the hedgerows of "rods and switches" and beaten her black and blue. See it in the context of her tipping tea on his legs, hitting her head into a wall, wishing he'd broken her collar bone and it certainly fits too. You'd be hard pushed to find a song about domestic violence so easy to listen to as this :p Haha.

francismassacre

What I always heard was "Her skin that's for sure, I've turned black," but I'm not so sure that's right.

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