: Penny postcards cost US 1 cent to mail around 1900. : The version of the song mentioning the penny candle was written in 1947 by Arthur Colahan who grew up in Galway. And I'll bet the song was written long after the fact by New Yorkers? Just wanted to comment that this phrase probably, you think?, derives its meaning from how it is used? In the song it hits me as meaning simply an anachronism? such as one might say nowadays: send me a penny postcard. Being a semi-ignorant fellow with Irish ancestors I know the phrase "penny candle" from the song "Galway Bay", which I am going to fess up, incidentally, brings a tear to my eye, both eyes. : : Just wanted to respond to the thread on "penny candle". In Reply to: Penny candle posted by RRC on at 17:25:
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