School: Manorvaughan (roll number 10507)
- Location:
- Rawros, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Mary E. Alcorn
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1078, Page 133
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An Old Song (continued)
“Come lasses and lads, get leave of your dads,”
(continued from previous page)And played for ale and cakes,
And kisses too, until they were due,
The lasses held the stakes.
The girls did then begin,
To quarrel with the men,
And bade them take their kisses back,
And give them their own again.4) Good night, says Harry, good night, says Mary, Good night, says Poll to John,
Good night, says Sue to her sweetheart Hugh, Good night, says every one.Some walked and some did run,
Some loitered on the way,
And bound themselves, by kisses twelve,
To meet the next holiday.
- Collector
- Cyril Hall
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Aghalatty, Co. Donegal
- Informant
- Violet Hall
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 26
- Address
- Aghalatty, Co. Donegal