Scoil: Gort Leitreach (uimhir rolla 15960)
- Suíomh:
- Gort Leitreach, Co. Liatroma
- Múinteoir: Seosamh Mac Cionnaith
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- XML Scoil: Gort Leitreach
- XML Leathanach 349
- XML “The Half Set”
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Ar an leathanach seo
- To you light-footed trippers that are fond of a tune
And goes searching for fun by the light of the moon
Go ahead and don't cease in your course to advance
Till you meet what is termed that terrible dance
For in all this wide world you could not admit
A stranger display than this boorish half-set
And in distrustful lodges the game is conceived
And in its performance great numbers believed
In towns and in villages you can see there
The half-set or whole set performed with care
Yes, befating bullies unfavoured with grace
With instincts immoral, impious, and base(?)Those swaggering gehts show their armorous taste
By catching their co-partner sometimes by the waist
The hands are more commonly used than the feet
Which looks most, most indelicate and indiscreet
If memory has not my black head forsook
I heard a tune played called the One-horned Buck
And it was played by music men
Yet no other tune fits this gentle half setWhen formerly dancing a gig or a reel
The music was timed by the toe and the heel
But now it is a pluck and a drag
And a haul without any attention to music at all
You need not observe either carriage or care
You can Glaum like a maniac or hug like a bear
You can lash like a stallion or star(?) like a buck
Or crouch like a spaniel or bow (?) like a duck
So what was regarded as nice in past days
Seems now ......(leanann ar an chéad leathanach eile)- Bailitheoir
- Higgins
- Inscne
- Fireann
- Seoladh
- Cluain Cuas, Co. Liatroma