School: Alt Achadh Doire (roll number 15474)

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1. Mummers' Rhymes (continued)

   

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   I have a wee bottle here
   In my waist-coat pocket
   Some call it this
   Some call it that
   But I'll call it hokey pokey
   I'll complain to Jumpy Jack and fight again

   
   Here come I Beelzebub
   Over my shoulder I carry my club
   In my hand a dripping pan
   I think myself a jolly man
   Last Christmas Night upon the stick
   I burned my hand and feel it yet
   Between my finger and my thumb
   I ate my mincemeal every crumb.

   
   Here comes I Jack Straw
   Kissed the devil's wife
   Through a rock
   Through a reel
   Through an old spinning wheel
   Through a sheep's shop scam beam
   Into the devil's old wife again

   
   Here comes I wee devil dout
   If I don't get money

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   Topics

   1. activities
      1. social activities (~7)
         1. entertainments and recreational activities (~5,933)
   2. place-space-environment
      1. local lore, place-lore (~10,595)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Margaret Mc Glinchey

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Leitrim, Co. Donegal

   Informant

   Edward Mc Glinchey

   Gender

   Male