School: An Cluainín Uí Ruairc (C.) (roll number 10945)

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1. A Ballad Singer Caused a Change in the Date of Manorhamilton (continued)

   

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   Our rents we're not able to pay
   Our throats for tobacco are calling,
   Since the Union was first brought away.
   II
   Oh what do you mean by the Union?
   Then Susey to Darby did say,
   I mean that our gold and our silver,
   These robbers have taken away;
   They left us without shoe or stocking,
   A coat on our backs we can't wear,
   To keep up those big - bellied preachers,
   Who charged us for wearing our hair,
   III
   The twelfth of July is all over,
   The lilies and orange are shunned
   You will see no more assembling or,
   walking
   Or none of the Brunswicker's fund,
   Remember what you will see and hear,
   And all this shall come to pass
   The very next walk you will see with orange
   Them all dresses in green going to Mass.
   At this point of the song the singer was attacked by an orangeman who tore the ballads in bits. A general row between the Catholics and orangmen ensued. Thomas

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   Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.

   History Edit

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Teresa Gilbride

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Manorhamilton, Co. Leitrim