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School: Cnoc na Manach, An Mhainistir Bhán, Cionn tSáile (roll number 1391)

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Knocknamanagh, Co. Cork
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Dáithí de Barra
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    Till at length he had made me quite light in the nopper
    And then a wild rambling life I began
    III
    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 so
    IV
    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 hail
    V
    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, d
    Transcriber'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)
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. agents (~1)
      1. historical persons (~5,068)
    Language
    English
    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