School: Doohamlet
- Location:
- Doohamlat, Co. Monaghan
- Teacher: P. Mac an Bháird
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- (continued from previous page)II
I built a trap in 'eighty five,
All passengers to Convey,
But not a man would say, "how are you Denny,
Since the (cutt) shaking of the hay.
III
To tell the truth the times were hard,
I coveted the pound,
But watchful boys were on my track,
And lingered up that way,
And I was marked upon the list,
For the cutting of the hay.
IV
So Jane she's grazing round the rock
Without a single shoe
The people have her off the road
A thing long tried to do,
But twenty moons a night
And twenty suns a day,
Will brighten up the sky,
Before Jane or I is seen at any land grabber's hay.(continues on next page)
