School: Doire Clathach (roll number 11931)
- Location:
- Derryclogh Upper, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Éamonn Mac Firbisigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0299, Page 448
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Unpublished Irish Ballads - An Old Ballad (continued)
“On Pleasant Sunday as I took a ramble ¶ Down by the Banks of the Dripsey Side.”
(continued from previous page)the Lee.
Do thugas cuireadh dí chun dul ag ól liom
Is go dtabharfainn beoir dí dá bhfaghainn dá ndíol
Ní raibh sí agamsa chun suidhte ar fógnamh
Ná fiú na póige le fagháil ón
3.
As we fell drinking Beamish's porter
To coax her monions in high degree
Then her sister came and coaxed her
And I never more since saw grádh mo chroidhe
San óch ochón agus mo chumha go leointe
Gan an oidhche rómham agus mé pósta leat
Nílim pósta agus nì bheidh go deo mé
For I choose to go with my own Sweet Heart.
4.
If it is my fate that I will not gain her
I'll go deranged in her consequence
I will go wild all over the nation
Perambulating without sense
Is dúbhach a bhím se gach oidhche im aonar(continues on next page)
- Informant
- Dómhnall Ó Drisceóil
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Lahanaght, Co. Cork
- Informant
- Riobárd Muiris
- Gender
- Male