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   “There was a family lived in Ballinclay by the name of Lacey.”

   

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   a kind of a dandy or a swank and he wanted to get rid of the puck altogether. Paddy was a divil-may-care sort of a fellow, and great "bow-stuck" or loud-stouting fellow and didn't care one way or the other. Mary was getting on in years and began to fear she would never get a man on acount of the puck being in the place. Garret Doyle being a great composer of poems and songs and living in the same locality made the following song about them.
   Mary came out with a fiery face. Saying "this "puck" is a great disgrace. No young man can come near the place for feared he will be torn."
   Chorus
   La de al tal taddle is the dal tal.
   Ballinclay will swarm.

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   Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.

   History Edit

   Date

   1935

   Item type

   Lore

   Language

   Béarla

   Writing mode

   Handwritten

   Writing script

   Roman script