School: Lúbán Díge (Bodyke)
- Location:
- Bodyke, Co. Clare
- Teacher: Bríd, Bean Uí Chadhla
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This is also played with fingers.
Mitty Matty has a hen,
She lays eggs for gentlemen,
Sometimes one ,Sometimes two
Mitty Matty has a shoe
Hugh -Home who is at home
Father, Mother and Jumping Joe
The quite dog with the black snout
Rises the latch of the door and walks O-U-T.The Game of Ring.
A game is played with a ring or anything small.You put it into the closed hand of someone in the same ring All guess who has it a slap given to each miss.Game like the House that Jack built is the follow up which consists of saying easy piece without drawing a breath .The whole of the piece is given-
14,Pipers playing one tune some on the earth and more on the moon.
13.Fiddlers playing one jig,some wore hats and more wore wigs.
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10.Grey geese in a green field grazing.
9.wild birds with their bristles glaring.
8Crooked crows in a crab tree staring.
7 Green mares with their tails and manes in very good order.
6Bottles of the mountainy ash water.
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4 hares headless
3Dueer -a ducer
and a fine fat hen
To make a baby laugh
Catch the foot and on the large toe say ;This little pig went to the market
This little pig stayed at home
This little pig got bread and butter.
This little pig got nothing at all.
and on the fifth weak weak and tickle the foot.
