School: Scoil an Chlochair, Cappamore

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1. The Roadman's Wife from Cappamore - Her Corn Cured (continued)

   

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   There's none in front, they're all behind
   The ganger surely should be fine
   Or given free a corn
   He'd be more careful with the road;
   The ramblers would be found and stowed
   Int the pot-holes where, I'm blowed
   They'd never touch a corn

   'Twas then I thought of Rambling Thade
   Who always called a spade a spade
   How he had once a plaster made
   From paraffin and soda
   He mixed them both into a paste
   Affixed a label "Do not taste-
   Apply affected part with haste-
   Leave well enough alone, ah!"

   I tried the plan at first for fun
   Three days and nights I let it on
   The Rambling Thady's trick had won
   As sure as I was born
   It pulled the corn out by the roots
   Lock, stock and barrel, branches, shoots
   At last, thank God, my nice new boots
   Won't press upon my corn

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   1. genre
      1. poetry
         1. folk poetry (~9,504)

   Language

   English