School: Hackettstown (2)
- Location:
- Hacketstown, Co. Carlow
- Teacher: Anna Seabrooke
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0909, Page 556
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A Song - Grandfather Brian
“Grandfather Brian departed this life; It was on Saint Patrick's Day”
Grandfather Brian departed this life
It was on Saint Patrick's Day
He started off to the next world without ever asking his way
Leaving me all his riches.
He had a great deal of wealth do you see.
A pair of his old leather breeches all buttoned up and down to the knee. Chorus.
Hurrah for my Grandfather Brian,
I wish he were living, So sure for every day he would be dying.
He would leave me ten times as much more. (2)
He left me a (bog) bog for a garden.
But one night there came a flood.
And when I went out in the morning
I went to my eyes in the mud. (3)
He left me a mighty fine clock too.
Brass wheels mad out of wood.
He left me a stool to sit down on,(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Sarah Jane Tutty
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Hacketstown, Co. Carlow
- Informant
- Mrs Lawrence
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Slieveroe, Co. Wicklow