School: Stravicnabo
- Location:
- Stravicnabo, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: Michael Kelly
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0978, Page 466
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- Each loyal man or such as can
be found about Grousehall
Come join with me in sympathy
and pity mu downfall
I am dispised and stygmatised
for tyranny and wrong
Both far and near, my name you'll hear re-echoed in A Song.
II
I am belied because I tried for
to enforce the law
And keep The peace around the place
with drunken ruffs and all
Tho' my protest may be expressed
in language rather strong
I think I'm bound for to Confound
the Author of that song.
III
That hackling clown who can let down
a tear, with every smile
And all his days with perfect ease
could act the Crocodile
With - nimble shank's he plays his prank's
on peelers all along
And now does aim to blast my fame
by his wild rebel song.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Ellen Smith
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Stravicnabo, Co. Cavan
