School: Ballyadams (roll number 894)
- Location:
- Ballyadams, Co. Laois
- Teacher: P. Ó Bruadair
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- Any number of players can play this game. All the players but one stand in a circle, facing inwards hands caught, stretched out and held high. The one player A stands outside the circle at first. She goes in and out of the ring then under the Arched hands repeating a rhyme while doing so:-
"In and out go the darkie Blue-bells
In and out go the darkie Blue-bells
In and out go the darkie Blue-bells."
This is said three times. The person that she stops at after repeating the line three times is tapped on the shoulder by A The person tapped then goes behind A, taps A on the shoulder in turn and says
"Tap rap-a-rapper on thy shoulder"
Tap-rap-a-rapper on thy shoulder(continues on next page)- Collector
- Máire Ní Nualláin
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Crannagh, Co. Laois