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1. An Old Song

   “My dear sister Eileen, she's younger than I am ...”

   

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   “My dear sister Eileen, she’s younger than I am,
   At the age of sixteen for a bride she was taken,
   At the age of nineteen they embraced each other,
   At the age of twenty-one a son and a daughter.
   And I am sweet forty-five and never got an offer.
   If I would get a man wouldn’t she be jealous?
   I would earn money plenty and he would spend it in the ale-house,
   When he would be out spending I would be in saving.
   Come, judge me all man-kind, am I not worth a-having?
   Come, policeman; come, sailor; come, brewer; come, baker;
   Come, weaver; come, tailor; come, fiddler; come, piper;
   But nothing ever came but an old chimney sweeper.

   

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         1. folk poetry (~9,504)

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   Béarla

   Bailitheoir

   Ethna Cassidy

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   Baineann

   Seoladh

   Meencrumlin, Co. Donegal

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   Kitty Mac Grory

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   Baineann

   Aois

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   Seoladh

   Croaghonagh, Co. Donegal