Scoil: Tobar Pádraig (uimhir rolla 4764)

Ar an leathanach seo

1. Johnson's Ball (ar lean)

   

   Roinn Roinn Postáil

   (ar lean ón leathanach roimhe)

   of the dance he brought from Clare.
   When his trotters failed, and away he sailed.
   On the back of a sugan chair.

   
   But when the ball was over.
   And all was cleared away.
   'Twas hanging from the coping-stones,
   They found poor Lar that day.
   He was making for a haler.
   Got entangled in the wall.
   Saying. "Where are you, comrade Johnson.
   May bad luck attend your ball".

   
   N.B. The house in which this ball took place is situated almost directly opposite the village pump. The house is now occupied by a daughter of the Johnson, who held the ball there. Many of the people who are mentioned in this song are still alive, but the majority of those who were at the ball have crossed "the bourne from which no traveller returns".

   

   Tras-scríofa ag duine dár meitheal tras-scríbhneoirí deonacha.

   Stair Athraigh

   Teanga

   Béarla

   Faisnéiseoir

   John Ryan

   Inscne

   Fireann

   Seoladh

   Tobar Phádraig, Co. Luimnigh