School: Cros Buidhe (roll number 8472)
- Location:
- Crois Bheoidh, Co. Shligigh
- Teacher: Cathal Mac Murchadha
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- (continued from previous page)You are the jewel of my heart
But yet I fear 'tis here the care lies
I fear your doom will be to die
For stealing me: I being an heiress!"Then up bespoke that farmer's son
Just like a young brave politician
"Your Father he's a councillor
And I'll got ell him my condition -"Ten guineas will be his fee
"He'll take me for a stranger
" 'Tis for the gold he'll counsel me
"And he'll protect me from the danger".He went him to the lawyer's house
Upon the very next day after
But little did that lawyer know
The lady gay she was his daughterWhen the lawyer saw the gold
Hoping he might be the gainer
A canny trick he told the youth
Of how he might obtain her:"Go yourself a horse provide
And just get on behind her(continues on next page)