The 'Latchico' Song
The 'Latchico' Song
Hi, hope this is the right bit of the site
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.
Does anyone have any ideas?
Thanks
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.
Does anyone have any ideas?
Thanks
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I'd advise searching Google, not this board.
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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.
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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.s1m0n wrote:I'd advise searching Google, not this board.
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Sorry; I might have mentioned that, too. I get so used to sifting the chaff I don't think much of it.Roger O'Keeffe wrote:...all I got was a couple of hundred totally implausible links to Daniel O'Donnell...
So, what IS a latchyco? The best I could find was some sort of milquetoast definition as "a bad man".Roger O'Keefe wrote:I can't believe his mammy would have let him use a word like that at all at all.
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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 .
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 .
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I think the original request has been answered. The call was for recordings. Google shows the following:
Daniel O'Donnell recorded it on an album called "The Half of".
Seamus McGee recorded it on an album called "A-One".
I also see an instrumental version on a collection by a generic name of Shamrock & Thistle on an album called "50 Country & Irish Requests".
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Daniel O'Donnell recorded it on an album called "The Half of".
Seamus McGee recorded it on an album called "A-One".
I also see an instrumental version on a collection by a generic name of Shamrock & Thistle on an album called "50 Country & Irish Requests".
What more could you ask for? Life is surely complete.
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Nothing over at Mudcat.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 .
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Yeah, but no sample clips. There are clips for just about everything but "The Latchyco". It's like you have to buy a CD, fercryinoutloud.djm wrote:I think the original request has been answered. The call was for recordings. Google shows the following:
Daniel O'Donnell recorded it on an album called "The Half of".
Seamus McGee recorded it on an album called "A-One".
I also see an instrumental version on a collection by a generic name of Shamrock & Thistle on an album called "50 Country & Irish Requests".
What more could you ask for? Life is surely complete.
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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.
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Here's another "lachko" possibility: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.
http://www.lokpriya.com/cuisine/gujarat/veg/lachko.html
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":
http://www.rambles.net/latcho_drom94.html
Doesn't get us any closer to "latchyco".
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This all makes sense, I also had 'a feeling' that the word might be romany, but nothing firm to go on.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.
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