School: Aclint, Ardee (roll number 2138)

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1. Local Songs (continued)

   “You may travel that fine through fare ¶ From Reaghstown to Meath-hill”

   

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   And for those six good famous long imprisoned at the end
   They have s.o.s.'d the board of works a rescue gang to send
   And maybe in a year or two if only they keep still
   They'll see again this beyond
   A widened Colga lane

   Composed by James Callan Cardistown
   Written by Annie Mohan on 16th Jan 1938
   Aclint

   

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2. Local Songs

   “A word in time poor foolish Séan ¶ Perhaps would save your bacon”

   

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   Local songs No 2 I A word in time poor foolish Séan Perhaps would save your bacon Pause and reflect a mic mo croise Before this plunge you're taking Heed not the prompting of false friend Whose worse then knaves or misers Although the Blakes are no great shakes They're always good advisers I greatly fear the weaker sex will lay you into trouble It rarely takes a year to burst The matrimonial bubble II Ever since this world began They are a source of all vexation

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   Topics

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

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Annie Mohan

   Gender

   Female