School: Lisball
- Location:
- Lisball, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: S. Doherty
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- (continued from previous page)She has overflowed my fancy,
My time I've spent ni vain;
I'll be constant to that blooming girl.
While life with me remains.
(2)
Oh Nancy, lovely Nancy, Some pity on me take,
For if you don't believe me,
My tender heart will break;
The doctor has tried all remedies,
But no medicine could he find.
To curse a violent fever,
Or heal a love-sick mind.
(3)
Oh Jimmie, dearest Jimmie, if I thought you would prove true
If I thought you were in earnest,
No longer her I'd be,
By shady ground with you I'd rove,
Woodlands I'd serenade,
Over hills and lofty mountains until the break of day.
(4)
Oh, Nancy, lovely Nancy, one night all in your arms,
I'd do my whole [?] to rifle all your charms,
By the tasting of the sweetest that from your lips do flow,
And the waving of those flaxen calls,
Down on your shoulders low.
(5)
So those couple soon got married,(continues on next page)- Collector
- S. Doherty
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Lisball, Co. Cavan
- Informant
- Mr Phil Gaynor
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Bailieborough, Co. Cavan