School: Ballynacally, Inis (roll number 2189)
- Location:
- Ballynacally, Co. Clare
- Teacher: Tomás Ó Cuinneagáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0604, Page 143
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- (continued from previous page)two to sing, two to pray, two to carry my soul away.
The Lamb, the Lamb, the bleeding Lamb.
The Lamb of Calvery. The that was slain and rose again and gave Himself to Thee.
This verse used be sung long ago on Good Friday morning.
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I have a shilling a jolly jolly shilling.
I love my shilling as I love my life.
I have a penny for to spend and another for to lend and I have ten pence to bring home to my wife.
Pots and Pans went grieve me or a handsome girl went deceive me but happy is the girl that will meet me as I go rolling home, rolling home to my darling.
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These are verses which mothers sing for babies when they are playing with them.
- Habu, baby buntain; your father is gone huntin; to catch a hare. to skin a hare, to skin a hare, to make a cap for baby buntan.
Throw him up, up, up,
Throw him up high.
Throw him up, up, up
and hill come down by and by.
He didn't dance and dance, and dance,
and he didn't dance to day.
He didn't dance, and dance, and dance.
No, not yesterday.
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