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School: Tunnyfoyle

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Tonyfoyle, Co. Cavan
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Bean Mhic Thréinfhir
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    Go back and shut the gate.
    13. Early to bed and early to rise
    Makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.
    Late to bed and late to rise
    Makes a man beg before he dies.
    14. Put a twig standing up in a heap of ashes and move the ashes away be degrees saying -
    Shave the poor fellow,
    To make him be mellow,
    Cut off his beard,
    To make him 'affeard'
    If the poor fellow
    Chances to fall
    My poor back
    Will pay for all.
    15. My wife she's a rascal,
    I'll tell you what she did,
    She upset the cradle,
    And nearly killed the kid.
    16. Saturday night, my wife she died
    And Sunday she was buried,
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    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. genre
      1. poetry
        1. folk poetry (~9,504)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Phil Joe Traynor
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Ledonigan, Co. Cavan