School: Ardrahan, Mainistir Ó dTórna (roll number 13167)
- Location:
- Ard Raithin, Co. Chiarraí
- Teacher: Bean Uí Dhonnabháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0412, Page 167
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- (continued from previous page)That such a thing should be
For I thought to be the bride myself
And you the bridegroom to be
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Come riddle me, riddle me mother she says
Come riddle me all in one
Whether I'll go to Lord Thomas's wedding
O Or whether I'' tarry at home
Lord Thomas's mother don't like you
Because your fortune is low
Therefore I'll charge you with one of my blessings
To Lord Thomas's wedding don't go
Lord Thomas's mother don't like me
Because my fortune is low
In spite of all she has said
To Lord Thomas's wedding I'll go
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She dressed herself in scarlet red
Her waitingmaids all in green
There was not a town that she went through
But they took her to be the Queen
She rode and rode on her milk-white steed
Until she came to Lord Thomas's bower
She rode and rapped full round the ring
Sure there was no one there half so willing
As Lord Thomas to rise and let her in
Your welcome here Fair Ellen he says(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Eileen O' Sullivan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Cill Ghuilbin Thoir, Co. Chiarraí
- Collector
- Mrs M.B. Brosnan
- Gender
- Female
- Occupation
- Teacher
- Informant
- Hugh Ryle
- Relation
- Relative (other than parent or grandparent)
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 89
