School: Mín Charraigeach (roll number 7188)
- Location:
- Meencargagh, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Caitlín Nic Ghiolla Uain
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1096, Page 125
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An Old Song
“My dear sister Eileen, she's younger than I am ...”
“My dear sister Eileen, she’s younger than I am,
At the age of sixteen for a bride she was taken,
At the age of nineteen they embraced each other,
At the age of twenty-one a son and a daughter.
And I am sweet forty-five and never got an offer.
If I would get a man wouldn’t she be jealous?
I would earn money plenty and he would spend it in the ale-house,
When he would be out spending I would be in saving.
Come, judge me all man-kind, am I not worth a-having?
Come, policeman; come, sailor; come, brewer; come, baker;
Come, weaver; come, tailor; come, fiddler; come, piper;
But nothing ever came but an old chimney sweeper.
- Collector
- Ethna Cassidy
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Meencrumlin, Co. Donegal
- Informant
- Kitty Mac Grory
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 91
- Address
- Croaghonagh, Co. Donegal