Scoil: Hackettstown (2)

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1. A Song - Grandfather Brian

   “Grandfather Brian departed this life; It was on Saint Patrick's Day”

   

   Roinn Roinn Postáil

   Grandfather Brian departed this life
   It was on Saint Patrick's Day
   He started off to the next world without ever asking his way
   Leaving me all his riches.
   He had a great deal of wealth do you see.
   A pair of his old leather breeches all buttoned up and down to the knee.

   Chorus.
   Hurrah for my Grandfather Brian,
   I wish he were living, So sure for every day he would be dying.
   He would leave me ten times as much more.

   (2)
   He left me a (bog) bog for a garden.
   But one night there came a flood.
   And when I went out in the morning
   I went to my eyes in the mud.

   (3)
   He left me a mighty fine clock too.
   Brass wheels mad out of wood.
   He left me a stool to sit down on,

   (leanann ar an chéad leathanach eile)

   

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   Béarla

   Bailitheoir

   Sarah Jane Tutty

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   Baineann

   Seoladh

   Hacketstown, Co. Carlow

   Faisnéiseoir

   Mrs Lawrence

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   Baineann

   Seoladh

   Slieveroe, Co. Wicklow