School: Árd Fearna
- Location:
- Ardfarn, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Eileen Mc Govern
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- As I went up yon guttery gap I met my Uncle Davy.
I cut off his head and drank his blood and left him lying easy. A bottle of Whiskey.As I went through yon field of wheat,
I picked up something I could eat
It was neither fish flesh marrow or bone
And in three weeks it could walk its lone.
An egg.There was a man who had one eye.
He went out one night to view the sky.
He saw a tree with apples on it,
He took no apples off nor he left no apples on it. There were two apples on the tree he took one off and left one on.Blackie and Whitie went over the hill,
Blackie came back and Whitie stood still
A hen that laid an egg.Brothers and sister I have none but that man’s father is my father’s son. Father and son.
What is it nobody wants or nobody wants to lose. Law.What never was or never was or never will be(continues on next page)
