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School: Bláithín Íosa, Lappin (?)

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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1023, Page 224

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    III
    I think it strange how times have changed
    So very much of late
    Coercion now is all that sow
    And the peelers on their beat
    And the poteen still on every
    The peelers had no call
    And on Patricks day i longed to stray
    For pleasure to Grousehall
    IV
    When I was young I danced and sung
    I drank good whiskey too
    In each sheebin shop that sold a drop
    Of the real old mountain dew
    To take a glass has got alas
    The greatest crime of all
    Since Balfour placed that hungry baste (beast)
    The sergeant at Grousehall
    V
    It was on pretense of that offence
    He dragged me off to jail
    Alone to dwell in a cold cell
    My faith for to bewail
    My hoary head on a plank bed
    Such wrongs for vengence call
    (continues on next page)
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Philomena Smith
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Lappanbane, Co. Cavan
    Informant
    Mr Bernard Smith
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Lappanbane, Co. Cavan