School: Béal an Átha Móir (B.)
- Location:
- Ballinamore, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Seán Ó Heslin
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“The following is another ballad on the shooting of Lord Leitrim.”
IYe boys of the shamrock,
Give ear to my ditty.
Be true to your country,
Be wise and be witty.
Do keep your powder dry,
We'll make the tyrants fall,
For we will give them all
What Robert Clements got
For down in Donegal.ChorusWith my riddle roll the ree roll,
Foll roll the diddle roll,
My riddle roll the ree roll,
Foll de roll deray.IIIt being on All Fools' Day,
The debaucher left his den,
With his bastard ''bums'' so gay,
From the castle of Lough Ryan.
Meehan and Kinkey then said,
''We'll give them a hellish call.
We'll tumble all the cabins
This day in old Donegal''.IIIThe second day of April
This old viper passed the way.
† But when he came to Gortha Wood,
At an angle of the sea,
There stood undaunted Rory,
(who never feared a ball)
To protest decent widows
In the County Donegal.
ChorusIVBold Rory the stepped forward
And he quickly did salute
''Where are you going, coward
You old degrading brute!''
This renegade, This viper,
This enemies did attack,
And called out in fiendish tones.
''Come tell me who are you,son
From bold Rory of the Hills
And I make you welcome all
To a dose of bullet pills,
This minute, in Donegal.(continues on next page)- Collector
- Willie Farrell
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ballinamore, Co. Leitrim
- Informant
- Tom Creamer
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 55
- Address
- Stradermot, Co. Leitrim