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School: Clochar na Toirbhirte, Thurles (roll number 4068)

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Thurles, Co. Tipperary
Teacher:
An tSr. Aodán
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    “You want to see the big parade”

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    'Cos the General's fast asleep,
    Soldiers bold in a mighty row
    They've been told they're to fight the foe
    Sad to say no war to day,
    'Cos the General's fast asleep,
    The Colonel's mad and the major's blue,
    The captain's mad and the Sergent too
    Guess this war will have to keep,
    It's enough to make an army weep
    Look, oh look at the curly head
    Time to take him away to bed
    Sad to say no war to-day
    'Cos the General's fast asleep.

    Written by,
    Agnes Joyce
    3 Pearce Terrace
    Thurles
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. genre
      1. poetry
        1. folk poetry (~9,504)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Agnes Joyce
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Pearse Terrace, Co. Tipperary