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Volume: CBÉ 0220 (Part 2)

Date
1936
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The Main Manuscript Collection, Volume 0220, Page 0229

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The Main Manuscript Collection, Volume 0220, Page 0229

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  1. Old Song

    “I'm a gay "dacent" labouring youth...”

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    I'm a gay "dacent" labouring youth
    I was reared near the town of Dunshaughlin
    I was a "widon" in the first of me youth
    Since I buried poor Sally McLoughlin
    I got married but once in my life
    The same sin I'll never commit again
    I discovered when she was me wife
    She was fond of wan Barney McFinnegan
    Her father built castles in wood
    Oftentimes I went to admire them
    They built in the time of the Flood
    To keep her ould ancestors drier, sir.
    When he found I had Molly bespoke
    He was getting quite fat, but got thin again
    In the struggle his gissard I broke
    And we had a stiff corpse over Finnegan.
    The corpse in promotion was put
    Amongst all the friends in the barn, sir,
    And some they came there upon foot
    And more they came upon "garns" sir.
    (continues on next page)
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Item type
    cbe.types.AMH
    Language
    English
    Writing mode
    Handwritten
    Writing script
    Roman script
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