School: An Pasáiste Thoir (C.), Port Láirge
- Location:
- Passage East, Co. Waterford
- Teacher: Clare, Bean Uí Eachthigheirn
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- (continued from previous page)Only, Only, only, only, the fine fat fellow
This is the rhyme of thread the needle and sew.
'How many miles from this to LondonDerry'
Three score and ten
Will we be there in candle light
Yes and back again
Open the gates and let us go
Not without your barn and bow.
Here is out barn , here is our bow
Thread, thread, the needle and sew
When we are swinging, each girl get her turn while she is swinging we say
'A tilly; a tally, a pipe of tobacco
A penny to put in the nurses purse
I found a little awl
I stuck it in the wall
And that was the end of St Peter and Paul
With a high swing and a low swing
And a swing to get off the swing swang'(continues on next page)- Collector
- Children in Passage East
- Address
- Passage East, Co. Waterford