School: Leitir Mhic an Bhaird (Robertson) (roll number 15283)
- Location:
- Leitir Mhic an Bhaird, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Nábla Nic Amhlaidhe
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- Christmas is coming, and the goose is getting fat would you please put a penny in an old man’s hat if you haven’t a penny a halfpenny will do if you haven’t a halfpenny God bless you.
Here comes I Jack Straw such a man you never saw through a rock through a reel through an old spinnel wheel through a bag of pepper through a yow’s horn Through an old sheep shank.
Here comes I wee divel dowt fourteen yards of my old flannel shirt hanging out. Money is all I want money is all I crave. If I don’t get money I will put you all to your grave.
Hens pens, turkey’s treakle, midge’s beef, and bumbey’s bacon put this together as a gray cat’s feather, this is the best of food for a King.
Boxty in the griddle boxty in the pan if you don’t eat boxty you will never get a man.(continues on next page)- Collector
- Lizzie Hanlon
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Mín an Ghabhann, Co. Donegal