School: An Tuar Mór
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- Teacher: Mícheál Ó Ceallacháin
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“About this war on which caused many a hot debate...”
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About this war on which caused
many a hot debate
Since laws have been enacted the nuisance to abate.
Some says its merely tommy rot
this chasing flies by gosh
And paying folk three
pounds a week
For splashing on eye wash.
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The first of March the hunt
will start to Slaughter all the flies
So farmers get your wash in time
and rub it in their eyes
A few pence worth of wash will
bring a thousand flies to doom
And thus ere' long no gad
you will see from
Carrick-on-Shannon to Kiltoom.
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The history of the warble
starts off with one bad egg
Desposited so gently upon
the dumb beast leg
And from an egg the(continues on next page)