School: Cill Moibhí (C.) (roll number 13081)
- Location:
- Kilmovee, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Áine, Bean Uí Dhubhthaigh
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- (continued from previous page)Sure twould set your feet a prancing
To the whirls and the wheels of the jigs and reels
Of the lads and lasses a dancing
III
At the cross each night as the moon shone bright
And the stars above were gleaming
The little young men from the glade and the glen
And the coleens with blue eyes beaming
They tripped the floor in the Rinnce Mor
Mid a peal of merry laughter
Whilst the old fiddle croons to the dancing tunes
And the songs that followed after
IV
That old brown fiddle with the crack in the middle
I brought to the curate and christening
And played and sang till the rafters rang
And the eyes of all were glistening
Each wedding day I came the way(continues on next page)- Collector
- Annie E. Tully
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 13
- Address
- Raherolus, Co. Mayo