School: Clonlara
- Location:
- Cloonlara, Co. Clare
- Teacher: Dll. Ó Heoghanáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0585, Page 068
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Songs (continued)
“Where is now the merry party I remember long ago”
(continued from previous page)If the Holy Father alone may be,Pat Molloy
My mother was a widow
She lived in Athenry
She dept a little huxter shop
Her name it was Molloy
She gave to me one shilling
That she had in the till
And kissed me fifty times or more
I thought she'd never get her fill
We have fourteen children Pat she said
Which heaven to us has sent
And children are not like pigs you know
They cannot pay the rent
I went across to England
Where of gold there is no lack
I trampled from York to London
With my scythe upon my back
The English girls are beautiful
Their looks I don't decline
The eating and the drinking is beautiful and fine
But in one corner of my heart
Where nobody can see
There are two eyes of Irish blue always(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Chrissie Murphy
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Cloonlara, Co. Clare
- Collector
- Josie Moloney
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Cloonlara, Co. Clare
- Informant
- Josie Moloney
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Doonass, Co. Clare
- Informant
- Tim Mc Inerney
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Derryfadda, Co. Clare