My Grandad used to always play this song, the chorus went along the lines of 'hey ho the latchico', i would love to get a copy of this track but i dont know who it's by or what it's actually called! And a few searches have led me to dead ends.
When I put "latchyco" into "search" I get referred back to this thread and nowhere else. I've been a strong advocate for phpBB in my work environment, but there's clearly something that I'm just not getting with the search facility
And now there was no doubt that the trees were really moving - moving in and out through one another as if in a complicated country dance. ('And I suppose,' thought Lucy, 'when trees dance, it must be a very, very country dance indeed.')
Found a source or two via Google using "latchyco,lyrics", but for some reason lyrics sites are verboten to my 'puter. It's happened before. Major spyware factor, apparently. Weird. I'm not so curious as to change my settings, yet.
"If you take music out of this world, you will have nothing but a ball of fire." - Balochi musician
s1m0n wrote:I'd advise searching Google, not this board.
Tried that too, and all I got was a couple of hundred totally implausible links to Daniel O'Donnell , of all people. I can't believe his mammy would have let him use a word like that at all at all.
From the contexts in which I've heard it used, it evidently means "a bit of a lad", an untrustworthy character. But I always like to have a feel for the etymology of an unusual word before I'm comfortable using it, which is precisely why I'm looking for more than the lyrics of a song. I wouldn't be surprised if it turned out to be travellers' cant, but that's pure guesswork on my part.
Maybe someone would like to consult the Mudcat oracle on our collective behalf, I'm already goofing off work so much in C&F over the last few days that I'm resisting the tempation to go there myself .
Roger O'Keeffe wrote:From the contexts in which I've heard it used, it evidently means "a bit of a lad", an untrustworthy character. But I always like to have a feel for the etymology of an unusual word before I'm comfortable using it, which is precisely why I'm looking for more than the lyrics of a song. I wouldn't be surprised if it turned out to be travellers' cant, but that's pure guesswork on my part.
Maybe someone would like to consult the Mudcat oracle on our collective behalf, I'm already goofing off work so much in C&F over the last few days that I'm resisting the tempation to go there myself .
Nothing over at Mudcat.
"If you take music out of this world, you will have nothing but a ball of fire." - Balochi musician
I bet it means something pertaining to gypsies. When I first saw this thread, I thought of the movie Latcho Drom, which I thought was spelled Latchko. I searched around a bit and it seems to be a Serbian surname, but perhaps "bad man" is synonymous with gypsy.
The Weekenders wrote:I bet it means something pertaining to gypsies. When I first saw this thread, I thought of the movie Latcho Drom, which I thought was spelled Latchko. I searched around a bit and it seems to be a Serbian surname, but perhaps "bad man" is synonymous with gypsy.
And from Paul Goldsmith's Dictionary of Period Russian Names:
Lachko (m) -- "hunger."
Vars: Lacka. 1398.
*Google google google...*
Looks like you had it right the first time with "latcho", Weeks; the added "K" looks like a current common typo. It's a Romany word, "Latcho Drom" meaning "safe journey":
The Weekenders wrote:I bet it means something pertaining to gypsies. When I first saw this thread, I thought of the movie Latcho Drom, which I thought was spelled Latchko. I searched around a bit and it seems to be a Serbian surname, but perhaps "bad man" is synonymous with gypsy.
This all makes sense, I also had 'a feeling' that the word might be romany, but nothing firm to go on.
, of all people. I can't believe his mammy would have let him use a word like that at all at all.
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