School: Clochar na Trócaire, Ros Mhic Treóin (roll number 967)
- Location:
- New Ross, Co. Wexford
- Teacher: Sr M.R. Ní Mhaoldomhnaigh
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- (continued from previous page)"Here comes one Span, one Spanish maid,
I've come to seek your daughter Jane,"
The mother answers :-
My daughter Jane, she is too young,
To be consoled by anyone.
The other girl answers :-
"Let her be young, let her be old,
'Tis for her beauty she must be sold."
The mother answers :-
"Here is my daughter safe and sound,
And in her pocket three hundred pounds,
And on her finger a plain gold ring,
She's fit to marry any king."
Then the other girl takes Jane by the hand and dances saying :-
"You shall have a duck, my dear,
You shall have a servant, to serve you all the year,
And when your husband dies, leave that girl alone,
She shall sing and shall dance,
and clap her hands together."- Collector
- Mary Kehoe
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 13
- Address
- Bewley Street, Co. Wexford