School: Bailieboro (C.)
- Location:
- Bailieborough, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: Bean Uí Cheallaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1011, Page 213
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- XML “Games I Play - Buttons”
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- XML “Games I Play - Judy and Jack”
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- (continued from previous page)on. Each girl tries to win as many buttons as possible from the others.
- Children get round into a ring and one is picked out and put into the centre of the ring. The girl that is in the centre is to sit down and the children go round singing;
"Sally, Sally Waters sitting in the(continues on next page) - Two girls cross their arms and they catch hands. They hop on saying,
"Judy and Jack dressed in black,
Silver buttons behind their backs
Hi, ho, hipity ho
Turn the ship and away we go."
When they have the rhyme finished they both turn and face back and so on. - Informant
- Annie Mc Guirk
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Bailieborough, Co. Cavan
