School: Cruimghlinn (roll number 15967)
- Location:
- Crumlin, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Ml. Ó Conchobhair
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- (continued from previous page)One of the nurses replies again.
Jenny Joe is very bad, very bad, very bad.
Jenny Joe is very bad, you can't see her now.
Then they go away and come back again and say :
I came to see Jenny Joe, Jenny Joe Jenny Joe.
I came to see Jenny, how is she now.
Then one of the nurses replies:
Jenny Joe is dead in bed, dead in bed,
Jenny Joe is dead in bed, you can't see her now.
The girls stay then get the flowers and leave them on Jenny Joe and pretend and pretend to be crying, They carry her out some distance from where she was in bed and leave her on the grass, then she gets up and runs afar the other girls, and whoever she catches will be Jenny Joe again, then the same thing is performed.
