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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.

56 minutes

Last on

Wed 28 Apr 2021 15:04

Music Played

  • Status Quo

    And It's Better Now

  • The Hollies

    Here I Go Again

  • Eddie Rabbitt

    I Love A Rainy Night

  • George Jones

    Don't Be Angry

  • Imelda May

    Diamonds

  • Engelbert Humperdinck

    There Goes My Everything

  • Bryan Adams

    You Belong To Me

  • Enrique Iglesas

    There Goes My baby

  • Moe Bandy

    Till I'm Too Old to die Young

  • Country Gazette

    Teach Your Children

  • Roy Orbison

    Blue Bayou

  • Brian Kennedy & Adrian Dunbar

    Curragh Of Kildare

  • Ray Charles

    Hit The Road Jack

Broadcast

  • Wed 28 Apr 2021 15:04