![]() ![]() Other suitors deliberate on their own wonderful skills, such as dancing, or ploughing. Sive, the girl in the song, is being teased by the young men who, in a playful kind of way, discuss her dowry, or lack of it. Although the practice of dancing to them died out, songs continued to be made in the same mould as the carole (not to be confused with the much later Christmas Carol) for centuries afterwards. Songs of this kind belong to the medieval carole or round– dance tradition (a combination of singing and dancing) which the Normans were supposed to have brought into Ireland. The verses were taken up by various singers while the whole company joined in the chorus singing in unison. I first heard this song on a radio programme in the early 1970s performed by a group of singers from Connemara during an oíche airneáil (social evening). ![]() A forgotten track from a forgotten album of many moons ago!
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