School: The Vale (An Gleann)

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1. Local Songs - Bailieborough Dance (continued)

   

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   (4)
   Young Cahill will sing Mavoureen",
   And the Wearing of the Green,
   And Tommie Hall with John James Small
   Will sing Sweet Shibereen
   And Willie Wier who did God fear
   The girls he will entrance
   When you see him do the "cake walk"
   At the Bailieborough Dance

   (5)
   If I had space I would relate
   The friends you would find there
   From Tanderagee and Mollywee
   And Lisnalee and Lear.

   

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2. Local Songs - The Farmers of Skeagh

   

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   (1)
   The farmers of this country
   They are so bush and keen
   They craft and wealth and riches
   I don't intend to screen.

   (2)
   Johnny Hall so neat and small
   Who has acres by the score
   His cousin Fred whose fathers dead

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   Topics

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

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Jack Clarke

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Skeagh, Co. Cavan