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School: The Vale (An Gleann)

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Leiter, Co. Cavan
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S. Ó Brolcháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1010, Page 360

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  1. Local Songs - Mulligan's Pound (continued)

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    (continued from previous page)
    If I don't mistake I me as well tell you
    We hadn't a make
    We inclined all together
    In our own native town
    And soon got in touch with the man
    That carried Mulligan's pound
    (3)
    This wise man from Skeagh
    On to him we dictate
    When we moved with a motion
    His good to advise
    That we would spend it on Guinness
    To humour the boys
    He went to a pub
    Near the end of a town
    The bar man his sleeves rolled up
    And his braces let down
    He carried us in porter
    Until he closed up that night
    And we soon put an end
    To Mulligan's pound.
    (4)
    We drank a health to them all
    That came there that night
    Not for getting them that come
    To make wrongs all right
    But to the old damsel at the end of her days
    (continues on next page)
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. genre
      1. poetry
        1. folk poetry (~9,504)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Benny Reilly
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Skeagh, Co. Cavan