School: Drumcoghill
- Location:
- Drumcoghill Lower, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: Bean Uí Iomaire
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0982, Page 247
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- (continued from previous page)6. I ran until I got it
When I got it I sat down to look for it,
I brought it home with me.What is that we see,
The King seldom sees it
And God never sees it.There was a man.
He rode through this town.
Great Britain was his name.
His saddle was girded with gold.
Now this is three I have told his name.Hitty Hatty on the wall,
Hitty Hatty got a fall,
All the Kings horses, and all the Kings men
But Hitty Hatty never was the same.What is in a house,
With the two ends of it in,
And the middle of it out.What was up the chimney down,
And would not go down the chimney up.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mrs A. Montgomery
- Gender
- Female
- Occupation
- Teacher
- Address
- Corr, Co. Cavan
- Informant
- Mrs Kelly
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Corr, Co. Cavan
