School: Boyerstown (roll number 13285)

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1. A Local Song (continued)

   “There is a creamy pony I knew when I was a boy.”

   

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   Time brought many changes.
   Around the bridge of Dunderry,
   Then Bobby and his coachman they parted company
   He went across to Mitchelstown.
   Where he could rest his bones.
   Untill Healy came and bought him
   For to draw a load of stones.
   Poor Bobby was agreeable.
   He could not well refuse,
   He brought him down to Connors.
   And got on a set of shoes.
   Saying, "At sunrise in the morning
   Ill have you in the dray.
   Ive a hundred load of gravel
   To put out at fair Ballray.
   "Put on my back good harness,
   And of oats give me my fill,
   And Ill drive your loads of gravel
   Around old Rathcarne Hill."
   And when that job was finished.
   And Bobby getting thin.
   And grass was very tempting
   On the shady roads to Trim.
   Poor Bobby took a ramble
   As he often did before.
   he stopped to read the notice
   Outside the barrack door.

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   History Edit

   Topics

   1. seánra
      1. filíocht
         1. filíocht na ndaoine (~9,504)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Nancy Devine

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Baile Bháigh, Co. na Mí

   Informant

   John Fitzsimons

   Gender

   Male

   Age

   38

   Address

   Baile an Tulcháin, Co. na Mí