School: Clonfad (roll number 11948)
- Location:
- Cloonfad, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Pádhraic Ó Cionnaodha
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0273, Page 376
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- Sing a song of sixpence a pocket full of rye,
Four and twenty blackbirds baking in a pie,
When the pie was over them all began to sing,
And wasn't it a dandy dish to leave before the king,
The king in his counting room counting out his money
The Queen in the parlour eating bread and honey,
The maid in the garden spreading out clothes
Up comes a blackbird and done it on her nose
She swore be the bottle and glass that she'd never go to Mass
Till she'd play pitch and toss on the blackbird's _____
I chased the wren from rock to rock
I chased her into a public shop, and
dipped her nose in a bottle of bear.
I wish ye all a happy new year.
- Collector
- Margaret T. Shea
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Cloonshask, Co. Roscommon
