Volume: CBÉ 0460 (Part 2)

Date
1938
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The Main Manuscript Collection, Volume 0460, Page 0270

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  1. Caoine __ There was an ould woman she lived near Ballymitty herself and her husband. They lived in a little thatched house.
    Every Saturday night he'd come in, there was a little canister on the hob and they would keep the cat_tail tobacco in it ; and a scut of a chalk pipe 'longside it. When he'd come in an the Saturday night he'd catch up the canister and rattle it and if 'twas empty he'd put some tobbacco in it.
    Anyway the old mand died, and the poor woman was in an awful way after him. The day of the funeral when he was taken out she started lamenting & keening :
    "You're going to your hole John O, Hi Ho O John O Hi Ho You know
    You're going to your hole
    I have no wan to rattle me canister now
    John O, Hi Ho You know
    And me scut on the hob, Hi Ho you know John O
    And everything in the scut, Hi Ho John O You
    Know."
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Date
    January 1938
    Item type
    Lore
    Language
    English
    Writing mode
    Handwritten
    Writing script
    Gaelic script
    Informant