School: Island Parish
- Location:
- Ballina, Co. Offaly
- Teacher: Seán Ó Móráin
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“This song was composed by Thomas Hodgins who lived in Castletown.”
He is dead about forty years. He wrote it about his neighbour who lost money at the thimble-riggers at the fair in Ballycumber1The second day of blooming May.
It been at Ballycumber fair.
I took a strole with Tom Malone who
often cut a figure there
And in we went to Jimie's tent
Politely shown up stairs
Where Beau and Bell vied to excell
In dancing native airs2We neatly fed on ginger bread.
Drank Bacchus old whey.
That well toned drone roused up Malone.
Squeezed up by poor old hay.(continues on next page)- Collector
- Michael Hickey
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ballycumber, Co. Offaly
- Informant
- Peter Daly
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ballina, Co. Offaly