School: Derryvoney
- Location:
- Derryvony, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: Mary Ní Néill
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0970, Page 114
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- (continued from previous page)fruit they go to sell.
Its a long way up Dublin it would want to pay you well.
Pat and Dan they started off good prices to procure.
But the lorry fell a victim in a place called Drumrlooar [?]
They could not get her started and it left them in a stamp
So they called on doctor Reilly to oblige them with a pump.
The doctor's pump it blew them up the engine forked [?] to swell
And they landed in Virgini with the king behind the wheel.
When she landed in Virgini she would not move at all
So Pat and Dan went round the town and started for to call.
Arise my decent man cried Dan arise and let me in.
For this is a lorry owner and I am a man called Flinn.
We have a nasty voyage our lorry it broke down
With a load of crabs and apples for sale in Dublin town(continues on next page)
