School: Cnoc na Manach, An Mhainistir Bhán, Cionn tSáile (roll number 1391)
- Location:
- Knocknamanagh, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Dáithí de Barra
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- (continued from previous page)Till at length he had made me quite light in the nopper
And then a wild rambling life I beganIII
In the year sixty-two I accepted the shilling
And in Cork's royal barracks I entered my corps
In no less than five minutes I got good at my drilling
The boys knew me well and they bothered me soIV
One day while at rest with the mess I was eating
Some rogue blew his trumpet quite close to my ear
I knew nothing more but the victuals were blending
The soup flew around like a thick shower of hailV
I jumped from the barracks into the doorway
Stop, stop said the colonel don't let him go
I quite passed him by, by a good and sure way
By tumbling him flat with a good stinging blow
And I jumped o'er a wall as I would o'er a table
With my uncles in Togher they found me next day
To do their due duty they all won't be able
And then they allowed me to go on my way
I roamed as far west as that place called Crossbarry
And in Ballyheada I'm very well known
Likewise Ballygarvan and sweet Ballingarry
And down here in Tracton where the Abbey lies low
With my due to Sliabh Ruadh and my sprig of shillealigh
Where I often times tumbled a swift-footed hare
And stopped by their sides writing verses for O Healy
Who said that no songster with me could compare
And now to conclude and to finish my ditty[marginalia]
s d t L t s m f s m t
s f m r s r t, d r t, d m
s d' d' s s f m r d t, dTranscriber's note:
The marginalia is missing a line above, lost in the spine. It appears to be solfeggio music notation for the song.(continues on next page)- Collector
- Nora Barry
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Tubbrid, Co. Cork
- Informant
- Cornelius O Reilly
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Britfieldstown, Co. Cork
- Informant
- Patrick O Keefe
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 68
- Address
- Granig, Co. Cork