Meaning of "hawkin' twang" and "traycle depot" Hello. What does it mean here? "Come listen to my story, it's about a nice young man When the militia wasn't a wantin', he dealt in hawkin' twang He lov

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Meaning of "hawkin' twang" and "traycle depot" Hello. What does it mean here? "Come listen to my story, it's about a nice young man When the militia wasn't a wantin', he dealt in hawkin' twang He loved a lovely maiden as fair as any midge And she kept a traycle depot one side of the Carlisle bridge Well, another one came a courtin' her and his name was Mickey Baggs" This is from old Irish song "The Twang Man"

1 aug. 2020 05:25

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I'm no Dubliner, but I can try and help you out. Hopefully you'll get an answer from someone that is Irish and knows what they're talking about. I think twang means toffee, as far as I remember. Hawkin' is an abbreviation of Hawking and means selling (to sell). He was selling toffee. I think that the Traycle depot is some kind of shop that she owned near Carlisle Bride, but I'm not 100% sure about what kind of shop. Maybe a Treacle shop, or a sweet shop? That is a guess though. Just so you know this is a hard song to translate because it's full of a lot of very Dublin specific slang.

1 augustus 2020

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