School: Coill-Chéim (roll number 9044)
- Location:
- Calhame, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Seán Mac Cuinneagáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1038, Page 50
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- (continued from previous page)get married. If there are no grains on the stalk she will never get married. Halloween is a day of sport and this is mostly how it is spent.
- Enter Father Christmas.
I wish you all a merry Christmas and a prosperous New Year,
With pocketfuls of money and barrelfuls of beer;
Room, boys, room there; give us room to rhyme,
We'll show you something funny about this Christmas time.
Active youth and active age;
This like was never seen on any stage,
If you don't believe the words I say,
Come in, Jack Straw, and he will clear the way.
Enter Jack Straw (all dressed in straw)
Here comes me, Jack Straw;
Such a man you never saw,
Through a rock, through a reel,
Through an old spinning wheel:
Through a bag of pepper,
Through a millers hopper,
Through a sheep's shank bone,
Such a man was never known.
If you don't believe the words I say,
Come in, wee Devil Doubt, an' he will clear the way.
Enter wee Devil Doubt:
Here comes me, wee Divil Doubt,
If you don't give me money, I'll sweep you all out:(continues on next page) - Informant
- P. Mc Closkey
