School: Cnoc Cairn, Imleach Iubhair (roll number 10731)

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1. The Galbally Farmer (continued)

   

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   I worked in Tipperary, "The Rag" and Rosegreen,
   At the moat of Kilfeackle and the bridge of Aileen,
   But such woeful starvation I'v enever yet seen
   As I got from you Darby O'Leary.

   
   This song was supposed to be written by a Spailpín who was hired by a farmer at the "Hiring Fair" of Kilmallock.
   This fair is still held in Kilmallock each July.
   Verse V is sometimes varied as follows:-

   

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   “I remember very well it was Michaelmas Night; A hearty good supper he did me invite...”

   

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   "I remember very well it was Michaelmas Night; A hearty good supper he did me invite, A mug of sour milk that 'ud physic the snipe, And give you the trotting disorder." The song is very popular among the agricultural workers of the farming community. It is sung by them in a derisive manner to show their disgust of the treatment meted out to them by some farmers

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   1. genre
      1. poetry
         1. folk poetry (~9,504)

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