School: Radharc na Féile (roll number 14156)
- Location:
- Abbeyfeale West, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: Tadhg Mac Coitir
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“If you want to se Columbia give your”
If you want to see Columbia give your name to Jimmie Hugh,
He has a steamer fit for sailing with a
brave and daring crew,
We'll have Owen Sweeny, Michael Scollard, Seon Deniheen and Morgan Browne and if
Mick Leary wants a job, O wont we have a pleasant trip
We are going to carry Mainy Murphy but she would give us an awful fright,
She would drown our (sheets and blankets) ship with holy-water if we got a stormy night,
We were going to carry Long Davy but now I think we'll let him be,
Because he would drown our sheets and blankets there is no doubt he'd make his pee
Cudeen (Keefe) Keeffe needs not bewailing for he needn't pay no cash atall
Won't he look nice with a shovel and poke loading coal on the Carry All,
Naneen Deeffe need not bewailing for(continues on next page)