School: Coole (roll number 3936)
- Location:
- Coole, Co. Westmeath
- Teacher: T. Mac Cormaic
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- XML “An Old Song - The Old Grey Mare”
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- (continued from previous page)And meet with old acquaintance in the regions down below,
And greet a hearty welcome to himself and Justice Keogh.
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With that he let a dreadful roar and vanished in a blaze
He left us on the road my boys all standing in amaze.
We could not stir one hand or foot to speak we did not dare.
While in the drain beside us laid the carcase of the mare.
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It took us two full hour to recover of the freight
Not a single man of us could sleep a wink that night.
The moment that we closed our eye we see the vision quare.
We see the Ghost of Talbart and he mounted on the Mare
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So now we must go walking.
When there dirty work to do
May curse attend those Leguers there a dam(continues on next page)- Collector
- Mary Gunning
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Coole, Co. Westmeath