School: Cor na Muclach (roll number 14470)
- Location:
- Cornamucklagh North, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Annie Ryan
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- (continued from previous page)(III)We chuckled and we laughed with glee,The Celt is going fast but times are changed and we have found him a place at last,We have bitten off a bite too muchOur boys don't like the game,Pat can do the fighting andEngland get the fame.
"Chorus"It's Paddy here and Paddy there and,
Paddy form and dress,
And its gallant English soldiers
when the papers go to Press.
(IV)We have closed the ocean now to Pat,
he has only one place to go,
Right across to Flanders to fight the German foe,
We placed him in the forefront to draw the Turkish shells,
We got rid of a lot of the Paddies at the Bloody Dardanelles.
"Chorus"It's Paddy here and Paddy there and anything you please,
And if Paddy is not a blinded fool
I fancy Paddy sees.(continues on next page)- Informant
- Mr Terry Rourke
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 74
- Address
- Cornamucklagh North, Co. Leitrim