School: Ballygar (C)
- Location:
- Ballygar, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Eithne, Bean Uí Liatháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0084, Page 041
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- Riddle me Riddle me
antio me father gave me seed to sow
when the seed began to grow like
a garden full of snow, when the
snow began to melt like a ship
without a belt. When the ship began
to sail like a bird without a tail
When the bird began to fly
like an eagle in the sky, when
the sky begins to fall the Lord have
mercy on us all.Onery, dooree, diggeree, dairee
Hillibo, hollaboo Jenibee leary
Dix cum Dandy merry cum time
Humbly Bumbly Twenty nine
Pull in that black foot at the No. 9This rhyme is repeated as a game till all the feet are pulled in except one. The owner of this foot then has to get up and go around on the feet of the players again.(continues on next page)
