School: Cloch Rua (roll number 11111)
- Location:
- Cloghroe, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Nábla Nic Amhlaidhe
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1101, Page 063
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An Old Song
“I took a trip to Glasgow,”
I took a trip to Glasgow, the work was very slack, when I landed on the Key, I wish I had been back. I could not find a job at all, until I invented a plan, and then I started business to be a travelling candy man.
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One day a boy stepped up to me, he thought I was awful green, with a handful of rags to put in my bag and a break slipped in between. Says I take that to my cadoms and go, and you will find it your very best plan, for they would not take a break or rag store, from the travelling candy man. So you take bits of iron, and I'll take bones (of) and rags, and all the different sorts we'll get we'll put them in different bags.
3.
I travelled the (wild) wide world over and over, well known to every man, and my name is Mr. Gilligan, a travelling candy man. There is a young girl in this house, she would like to be my wife, I'd share with her my brothers, that is connected with my life, I'd share with her my brothers, and I'd take her(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Margaret Walsh
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Lettermakenny, Co. Donegal
- Informant
- Robert Walsh
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 50
- Address
- Lettermakenny, Co. Donegal