School: Scoil Chuimín (roll number 4786)
- Location:
- Pollagh, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Gearóid R. Ó Laidhigh
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In Monoghan I learned laws of little use to me
IV
Then up to Dublin I did steer
Where I was told that clubs were bumps
My poor feet couldn't boast of either stocking, boot, or shoe
They gazed on me like dying hapes
To see me trudging on my stumps
"By the blazes they are all growing worse
said I 'poor Paudeen Rua
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Laid I "Kildare I'll see your grass where the cuckoo never hid her head
Nor did the cow her belly burst while chewing of her cud
I have seen her grass and walked on it
And up to Carlow straight I went
Where they've got onions and zoleor for triumph
If you make out the spud
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Johnny Jewel that's the stuff that would fill your belly like a globe
When fatigued and weary I sat down to rest a day or two.(continues on next page)
