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   “Michael Jordan Gurteen wrote a song about the Old Cow.”

   

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   fair.
   He had so many foughts with her he coundn't guarantee.
   He bought her home again and a sorry man was he.
   It was in the year of '64 when fother it was dear.
   She eat a cock of fother on a man they called Pat Kane.
   And thirty stacks of after grass going down raggy lane.
   She eat head gowns and bed gowns and balls of womens hair.
   She eat penny lings and tenny lings
   and other kinds of ware.
   She eat the galla bally the flower of all the flock.
   She eat every bit of furniture from Walshetown to Knock.
   She was wrinkled in the forhead and curbied in the skull.
   And for eighteen yeras and more she had

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   History Edit

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Henry Long

   Gender

   Male

   Informant

   Patrick Long

   Gender

   Male

   Age

   74

   Address

   Rossard, Co. Wexford