School: Milford (roll number 10586)

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1. Mummers' Rhymes

   

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   Around Christmas time there are people who come out and go around the houses saying rhymes. There names are Gillespie, the game Sir, Doctor, Jack Straw, Beelzebub and the wren. Some of the rhymes are:-

   
   1)

   Room, room for the gallant boys and give us room to rhyme
   We'll show you some activity about the Christmas time.
   Act of young and act of age
   the like was never acted on the stage
   If you don't believe what I say I'll call in Gillespie and he will clear the way.

   
   2)

   Here comes I Gillespie, Gillespie is my name
   And with my sword and pistol
   I mean to win this game

   3)

   The game sir, the game sir its not within your power
   I'll cut you up in inches in less than half an hour
   My head is made of iron my body is made of steel
   And with my sword and pistol

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   Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.

   History Edit

   Topics

   1. activities
      1. social activities (~7)
         1. entertainments and recreational activities (~5,933)
   2. events
      1. events (by time of year) (~11,476)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Joan Mc Dowell

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Millford, Co. Donegal

   Informant

   Billie Gardner

   Gender

   Male

   Age

   24

   Address

   Millford, Co. Donegal