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1. Mug the Rhymer (continued)

   

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   in and he'd play for them. It was all step-dancing in them days, reels, jigs, and hornpipes and singles, no such thing as sets. The set-dances were not known then. That is up to 88 years ago. Well "Mug the Rhymes" made a song about the races held there in the year 1841 - that was the year I was born.

   Come all ye jolly sportsmen wherever
   that you may be
   I pray you pay attention and
   listen unto me
   It's of a race, or steeple chase, upon
   those circles run
   Upon the Course of Wickhamstown
   in glorious
   That course from Rosegarland to her
   rider he did say

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   Item type

   Lore

   Language

   English

   Writing mode

   Handwritten

   Writing script

   Roman script

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   • Patrick Doyle