"The Britches Full of Stiches", also known as "O the Breeches Full of Stitches", "The Breeches On", "The Britches", "The Irish Lad" or "The Irish Lad's a Jolly Boy" is an Irish, Polka or Single Jig in A Major (Sullivan) or G Major (Roche, Tubridy). The parts are played AABB. The American tune "Leather Britches" appears to be a variant. The tune is first mentioned in Irish novelist and Fenian Charles Kickham's novel Knocknagow, or the Homes of Tipperary, first published in 1879, in which this ditty is sung by a jew's harp player who first plays the tune for a visitor who has torn his pants, then sings:     Oh, my breeches full of sticthes,     Oh, my breeches buckled on It was printed in Mallinson's 100 Irish Polkas (1997), Roche's Collection of Traditional Irish Music, vol. 2 (1912), Sullivan's Session Tunes, vol. 2, Taylor's Crossroads Dance (1992), Taylor's Music for the Sets: Blue Book (1995) and Tubridy's Irish Traditional Music, vol. 1 (1999). It was recorded by Cape Cod Fiddlers on Concert Collection II (1999), The Chieftains on The Best of the Chieftains (1992), Séamus Creagh & Jackie Daly (1977), Planxty and Shaskeen on My Love is in America.