School: Tobar Pádraig (roll number 4764)
- Location:
- Patrickswell, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: Anraoi Ó Broin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0527, Page 181
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- The Goats Of Molly Mourne.
Just at the cottage (college) near Moll's cross
There lives a lass most brazen
She keeps four goats as bold as brass
Along the road-side grazing
Stone walls do not a prison make
For cattle are so stubborn
So French and German leave they take
Those goats of Molly Mourne
One day she tied the four up tight
To save them from the thunder
And after saying her prayers that night
She bid them go and plunder
That was the night of the great big push
When Molly was loudly snoring
The man in the moon ran with his bush
Around the goats of Molly Mourne
One day they broke to Thomas Lynch'
And on him they laid bonasis.
They scooped his turnips, every one
Till they looked like smiling faces(continues on next page)
