School: Kiltiernan
- Location:
- Kiltiernan, Co. Dublin
- Teacher: E. Ní Earchadha
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- There are different games played out-side and inside such as- "Here comes the Blue-bird through the Window," "There was a Happy Wedding," Half a pound of Tuppenny Rice," There came a Duke-A-Riding, "Cobbler, Cobbler, Mend my shoe," "Help Tig, "Colours," and Donkey."
There's rhymes that you say when you
are playing the games. The rhyme you
say to the first game is-
"Here comes the blue-bird through the window,
Here comes the blue-bird through the door,
Here comes the blue-bird through the window,
Tra-la-la-la-la."
"Take your little partner and dance on the middle,
Take your little partner and dance on the floor
Take your little partner and dance on the middle
Tra-la-la-la-la.
The way you play it is, you all stand in a ring and one person goes under the arms singing the rhyme, she then takes a partner and dances in the middle they then go under the arms till they've to take a partner they each take a different person, and they keep going on like this till everybody has a partner.
The rhyme about the second game is-
"Half a pound of tuppenny rice,(continues on next page)- Collector
- Violet Cupitt
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Kiltiernan, Co. Dublin