School: Lear
- Location:
- Lear, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: C. Gibson
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Song (continued)
“I mind the time when Irishmen were proud and so do you”
(continued from previous page)The first you'll meet he's Skerty a bailiff by the way
He works free with Frank Dundee that noted man in Skeagh,
But if the guards gets on his track they'll take from him the crown, and he'll no more be seen going round the green in Bailieboro town
5 You'll meet with old Joe Kennedy he's decent
but he's poor he is the chief director of the house in Derrynure
6 You'll meet likewise the Knockbride boys as they assemble in a boon You'll meet with Gordon Lynch and Dempsey Hugh Garragon and the Spoon.
7 You'll meet with the fiddler Cappy but he goes by Killan and he gets five bob a night in Sherock and he does not give a dam.
Song
“Now old big Pat, has got a hat”
Song.
Now old big Pat,
Has got a hat,
A suit of clothes so grand,
A present from the Mrs. that is home in Ireland
2 He was a burden on states,(continues on next page)