What does "Tie the Boy" mean?
Sean puzzles listeners after asking what "Tie the Boy" means.
"Where," asks Sean, "did I get the expression, 'Tie the Boy'? My mother used to shout, 'Here, Tie the Boy, your tea's ready'! But if such a person existed, who were they? Where does it come from? What did they do?"
"Was Tie the Boy not a band from Derry in the eighties?" asks a listener.
Sean says that rings a bell. Janet nods.
"Tie the Boy were a Derry band," says another listener. "The guitarist, Peter Cunnah, went on to form the dance pop band D:ream."
"But it must have come from before then," Sean says. "It wasn't in the 1980s my mother was calling me Tie the Boy! He must have been listening to my mother!"
Sean in Coleraine rings, "Seemingly Tie the Boy visited all the hiring fairs, and he was heavily tattooed, and sailed the seven seas."
"So," says Sean, "I'm not really going off my head then..."
With music from Status Quo, The Hollies, Roy Orbison, Eddie Rabbitt, George Jones, and more.
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Here I Go Again
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Eddie Rabbitt
I Love A Rainy Night
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George Jones
Don't Be Angry
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Imelda May
Diamonds
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Engelbert Humperdinck
There Goes My Everything
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Bryan Adams
You Belong To Me
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Enrique Iglesas
There Goes My baby
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Moe Bandy
Till I'm Too Old to die Young
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Country Gazette
Teach Your Children
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Roy Orbison
Blue Bayou
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Brian Kennedy & Adrian Dunbar
Curragh Of Kildare
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Ray Charles
Hit The Road Jack
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