School: Gusserane
- Location:
- Gusserane, Co. Wexford
- Teacher: Peadar Mac Fheorais
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- XML “Denny Byrne the Piper”
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- In the year of '98 when all troubles were great
I though it would be a militia
And what should I see hanging out of a tree
But the corpse of a Hessian there hanging
The lad had good boots and I had bad brogues
And he lay to the bloody old viper
The boots were so tight and he pulled with such might
That both legs and boots came with the piperii
He took up the legs and he set on his peg's
Until he came to Tim Gavin's cabin
Bgob say's Tim I won't let you in
You'll be hung if you're caught there a rapping
He sent him out to the shed where the cow lay in bed
He got a wisp and began for to wipe her
The two lay together on a seven foot feather
And the cow fell a hugging the piperiii
And when day had dawned Denny got up and yawned
He drgged on the boots of the Hessian,
The two legs left there in the straw I declare
He left them like bail for his mission(continues on next page)- Collector
- Thomas Curtis
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Rathnageeragh, Co. Wexford
- Informant
- Mrs Curtis
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Rathnageeragh, Co. Wexford