Joke about priests and fiddlers

File: cheveriecharles-oh-tunetitles.mp3

Speakers:

CC - Fr. Charles Cheverie

CC: Well a lot of the times if you go to the eastern part of the island here and ask the fiddler for the name of a tune, forget it! (laughs).. But yet, they'll have a sequence of tunes. Give one tune, and they'll probably play five, six plus tunes after that. Just the custom of the place, the traditions. This is a kind of little pun on the side, if you will. Talk about a local fiddler – not here but wherever the place was – having a few drinks under his belt and going along pretty well. And the local priest came over to say a word to him about his state of insobriety, I suppose. And, "You know," he says, "Joe, do you know the Our Father? You know all these other tunes, but do you know the Our Father?" And the fiddler says, "Father, you whistle the first couple of bars, and I'll have it for you." (laughter)