School: Drom Mór (B.), Beantraí (roll number 13095)
- Location:
- Dromore, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Éamonn Ó Conchobhair
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0294, Page 063
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- (continued from previous page)late night.
On the same night the whiskey and wine bottles are left on the table for fear any of the "Good People" from the other world may call, the door is left unlocked for the same reason.
On Christmas Day everyone gets up very early in order to hear first Mass, and every familie has some bird for dinner such as a turkey or a goose.
On St. Stephen's Day boys of about our age, and sometimes young men, go to every house in three or four townlands near them, and all of them disguised. They go in groups of three or four, and they collect money. When they are finished they divide the money evenly, they get about six pence in every house for singing a song which consists of -
"The wren, the wren, the King of all birds
St. Stephen's Day he was caught in the furze
Although it is small its family is great,
Rise up landlady and give us a 'trate'
If you fill it of the best,
I hope in heaven your soul will rest.
But if you fill it of the small
It won't agree with the wren boys at all.
Shake, Shake, shake of the box(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Donnchadh Ó Drisceóil
- Gender
- Male
