While listening to Pandora a few months ago I heard “Mrs. McGrath” by Pete Seeger and found it catchy, but like most songs I hear on Pandora, it passed and didn’t come again for a long while. But today I was sitting around and started singing the chorus:
Would you too-rye-ah
Foddle-diddle-dah
toorye oorye oorye-ah
Would you toorye-ah
Foddle diddle dah
toorye oorye oorye-ah
Feeling the need to pursue the song and listen to the full version, I found the name and then found the version I liked on iTunes. Of course, sharing is difficult, but I did find a version on YouTube by Raymond Crooke, bless him. The way Pete Seeger sang it was a little more clean and having the crowd singing the chorus in the background stirs me deeply in a way that Raymond doesn’t quite capture, but his version is the more traditional one. Pete Seeger was singing that concert at Carnegie Hall in 1963, and I’m guessing the audience was a bunch of hippies.
