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1. An Old Song

   “My dear sister Eileen, she's younger than I am ...”

   

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   “My dear sister Eileen, she’s younger than I am, At the age of sixteen for a bride she was taken, At the age of nineteen they embraced each other, At the age of twenty-one a son and a daughter. And I am sweet forty-five and never got an offer. If I would get a man wouldn’t she be jealous? I would earn money plenty and he would spend it in the ale-house, When he would be out spending I would be in saving. Come, judge me all man-kind, am I not worth a-having? Come, policeman; come, sailor; come, brewer; come, baker; Come, weaver; come, tailor; come, fiddler; come, piper; But nothing ever came but an old chimney sweeper.

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   Topics

   1. genre
      1. poetry
         1. folk poetry (~9,504)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Ethna Cassidy

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Meencrumlin, Co. Donegal

   Informant

   Kitty Mac Grory

   Gender

   Female

   Age

   91

   Address

   Croaghonagh, Co. Donegal