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  1. Song - Jemmey of Grousehall (continued)

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    (continued from previous page)
    I am an honest living blade
    To take a glass is now alas
    The gratest crime of all
    Since Balfour placed the ugly beast
    The Sargent at Grousehall
    It was on pretence of this offence
    He dragged me off to jail
    Alone to dwell in a cold cell
    My fate for to bewail
    My hoary head on a plank bed
    I then for vengeance call
    He will rue the day he dragged away
    The hackler from Grousehall
    His deaths on dogs would surely flog
    Tis awful to behold
    He would pull up a six months pup
    And swear he's three years old.
    This nasty skunk he would swear you drunk
    And you drunk none atall
    He will rue the day he dragged away
    The hackler from Grousehall
    He would fix a plan for that young man
    That had a handsome wife
    He would swear quite plane that you are insane
    And has no sense atall
    As he has done with one of late
    Convenient to Grusehall
    (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
    Laurence Clarke
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Pottlebrack, Co. Cavan