What is the name of this stereotypical Irish music?

[Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker]

You hear it at about 1:54 in this cartoon.

[Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew]

“The Irish Washerwoman.”

I favor Bullwinkle’s rendition (as a waiter, serving Boris Badenov):

Oh, the taters are old and the meat is a fright
Everything is left over from Saturday night
We sweep it all up, throw it into a pot
And we say that it’s real Irish stew that we’ve got.

[Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker]

Thanks. I asked two different people in real life at various times and they both tried to tell me it was the same tune as the Mexican Hat Dance. I just don’t see it personally. Or maybe my sound reproduction isn’t as good as I’d like to think.

[Peter_Morris]

Soundtrack listing.

I’d guess it’s The Irish Washerwoman
Hmm, yup.
Edit - beaten to it.

[An_Gadai]

There’s another really common stereotypical Irish tune that I’m wondering whether it’s actually a tune or just a motif. I alas can’t think of an example of it right now. It’s a much simpler little riff.

[Chronos]

Another very common Irish tune (though with a rather different feel than “The Washer-Woman”) is The Minstrel Boy.

[Hamlet]

I’m pretty sure it’s Rio by O’Duran O’Duran.

[Captain_Amazing]

With stereotypical Irish music, it’s always either The Irish Washerwoman, The Minstrel Boy or The Londonderry Air

[An_Gadai]

@Captain_Amazing

With stereotypical Irish music, it’s always either The Irish Washerwoman, The Minstrel Boy or The Londonderry Air

Nope, the air I’m thinking of is in jig time I think, CECECEGFE would be the sequence I think. Usually played on a fiddle.

[Peter_Morris]

@Captain_Amazing

With stereotypical Irish music, it’s always either The Irish Washerwoman, The Minstrel Boy or The Londonderry Air

or When Irish Eyes are Smiling

or Toora Loora Loora

[Misnomer]

@Peter_Morris

@Captain_Amazing

With stereotypical Irish music, it’s always either The Irish Washerwoman, The Minstrel Boy or The Londonderry Air

or When Irish Eyes are Smiling

or Toora Loora Loora

Or “Danny Boy”…

[Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew]

@Misnomer

Or “Danny Boy”…

That’s the same song as “Londonderry Air.”

[Misnomer]

@Misnomer

Or “Danny Boy”…

Ok, wow…yeah, just realized what I did there. Sorry.

Move along, folks, nothing to see here…

(Or, what Biffy The Elephant Shrew said.)

[kaylasdad99]

@Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew

@Misnomer

Or “Danny Boy”…

That’s the same song as “Londonderry Air.”

Londonderry Air?

I thought it was “London derriere.”

[Contrapuntal]

@Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew

@Misnomer

Or “Danny Boy”…

That’s the same song as “Londonderry Air.”

So Danny was looking for some hot English butt?

[running_coach]

@Peter_Morris

@Captain_Amazing

With stereotypical Irish music, it’s always either The Irish Washerwoman, The Minstrel Boy or The Londonderry Air

or When Irish Eyes are Smiling

or Toora Loora Loora

You forgot the generic Irish Ballad.

[Captain_Amazing]

@runner pat

@Peter_Morris

or When Irish Eyes are Smiling

or Toora Loora Loora

You forgot the generic Irish Ballad.

Or Dennis Leary’s version.

[rowrrbazzle]

@An_Gadai

Nope, the air I’m thinking of is in jig time I think, CECECEGFE would be the sequence I think. Usually played on a fiddle.

“The Rakes of Mallow”? (arrangement by Leroy Anderson): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKfQtqNDlFA

[John_Mace]

@Peter_Morris

@Captain_Amazing

With stereotypical Irish music, it’s always either The Irish Washerwoman, The Minstrel Boy or The Londonderry Air

or When Irish Eyes are Smiling

or Toora Loora Loora

Isn’t that Tora! Tora! Tora! Or maybe I was thinking of Tora Bora Bora.

[Maggie_the_Ocelot]

@Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew

@Misnomer

Or “Danny Boy”…

That’s the same song as “Londonderry Air.”

Really? I thought that “Londonderry Air” was the other name for “Molly Malone”