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1. Local Song (continued)

   “In 1819 there was a wedding held one day”

   

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   As for money she'd get none
   She'd got an old piebald mare,
   That lost the teeth, the tail and hair,
   She got an old piebald mule.
   That would draw, without a lie,
   A wonderful load of new blown bladders.
   Chaff of peas and downy feathers,
   Of asses she'd got twenty four,
   She was promised she would get another score.
   To help the guests at the feast
   Was a score of music men at least,
   With harps and pipes and fiddles too,
   They were a jovial funny crew,
   Delicious food was next taken in
   Upon a large vessel made of tin.
   The greedy weaver ate so fast
   That he was nearly choked at last.
   A watchful barber standing by
   On the weaver cast an eye,
   His frizzling tongs he took in hand
   And by that ready-written plan
   He saved the life of the poor man

   

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   History Edit

   Topics

   1. genre
      1. poetry
         1. folk poetry (~9,504)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Lena Farrelly

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Leiter, Co. Cavan

   Informant

   Philip Farrelly

   Gender

   Male

   Age

   60

   Address

   Leiter, Co. Cavan