School: Tunnyfoyle
- Location:
- Tonyfoyle, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: Bean Mhic Thréinfhir
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1016, Page 225
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- (continued from previous page)No. 9. As I look up as I look down I saw blessed Mary coming down
Seven mass books open
Seven bells a ringing
The gates of heaven open
To let my poor soul in.
No. 10. Here's where the coachman sits,
Here's where he cracks his whip
Tom tinker eye winker
Nose dropper mouth eater chin
choper, chin choper.
No. 11. When I was young and had no sence
I brought a fiddle at eighteen pence
And all the tune that I could play
Was butter the bread and eat away.
- A lump of red leather.
A red leather lump
To be said as often as possible without a mistake.(continues on next page)
