School: Baile na nGarraidhthe (roll number 13618)
- Location:
- Ballygarries, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: T. Ó Tuairisc
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0104, Page 253
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- Games at school
Only five people can play this game:
The rhyme is:
My father is dead and buried in his grave, buried in his grave, buried in his grave, my father is dead and buried in his grave.
Heigh. High Ho.
II.
There grew an old apple tree over his head, over his head, over his head. There grew an old apple tree over his head.
Heigh. High Ho.
III.
When the apples were ripe and ready to fall, ready to fall, ready to fall. When the apples were right and ready to fall.
Heigh. High Ho.
IV.
There came an old woman to pick them all up, to pick them all up. There came an old woman to pick them all up.
My fair lady.
V.
The father got up and gave her a kick, gave her a kick, gave her a kick. The father got up and gave her a kick.
Heigh. High Ho.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Patrick Mullaghy
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Cornfield, Co. Mayo
