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School: Naoimh Ióseiph (roll number 15628)

Location:
Boyle, Co. Roscommon
Teachers:
Mícheál Ó Mainnín Pádraig Ó Cinnéide
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  1. A Song

    “Come all you dender Christians attention to me pay”

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    Come all you dender Christians attention to me pay
    I hope you will condole with me while I relate this lay
    It was of a worthy stripling youth whose age was scare nineteen
    And little he drem't of his dismal fate while bathing he had been
    It was on the 10th day of July in the year of seventy-four
    This fatal accident occured upon Lough Arrow's shore
    In the County of Roscommon and the confines of Drumdoe
    A poor dejected widows son lay on the bottom low
    James Judge he was the widow's son and dwelled near Corrigroe
    He laboured for his Landlord, Wolfe Flannigan at Drumdoe
    The weather it was sultry, and his day's work being done
    And being on the margin of the lake he said he
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    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. genre
      1. poetry
        1. folk poetry (~9,504)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    John Burke
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Boyle, Co. Roscommon
    Informant
    Miss K. Mc Pherson
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    30
    Address
    Great Meadow, Co. Roscommon