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