School: Páirc Íseal (C.) (roll number 4794)
- Location:
- Lowpark, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Sorcha Ní Dhumhnaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0117, Page 143
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- There was once a woman and a man, they were very rich, they had a servant girl and they told her never to look up the chimney, if she did there was a man that would pull her up. This morning she got up, she closed down the door-room. She looked up the chimney and she saw a bag of gold above. She put up the tongs and pulled it down. She hung down the kettle, she put the bag of gold on her back, she started going 'till she met a cow.
Milk me, milk me
I wasn't milked for a year or more"
"I have no time, I have no time"
She was goin' an' goin 'till she met a goat. "Take the fetter off me, take the fetter off me"
"I wasn't tuck off for a year or more"
She was going then till she met a well.
"Take a cup of water out of me, take a cup of water out of me."(continues on next page)
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