Volume: CBÉ 0220 (Part 1)

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   “The following song was made by a man who lived near Duncormick.”

   

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   Come with cakes and sugar stick and other things to ate
   You'll hear the ould women bauling out just as you pass 'em by.
   If you want to swell your 'able out just come here to try.

   Chorus:-
   III
   The tents in great rotation the names upon the top.
   And the barmaid at the counter sayin' won't you have a drop.
   If you want to trate your colleen you need not be surprized.
   The whiskey they'll give to you they have it well baptised.

   ChorusL-
   IV
   The dairy maid she labours none to tell her mistress plain
   If she can't see the races she'll never milk a drain
   She's dressing in the fashion she looks so nate and wild

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   Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.

   History Edit

   Date

   30 June 1936

   Item type

   cbe.types.AMH

   Language

   English

   Writing mode

   Handwritten

   Writing script

   Roman script

   Informant

   • Éamonn Furlong