School: St Oran's, Buncrana
- Location:
- Buncrana, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Seán Mac Éibhir
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1111, Page 238
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On the twenty-ninth of November
In the year of seventy-five,
When first I took a notion
All for to get a wife
Fortune was unkind to me,
And then I got my fill,
When I saw that humped hippocrite
That serves on Jolly Hill.
2
Whenever I go to bed at night,
My heart it is very sore.
And when I rise in the morning,
I am grieved ten times more,
All for to wake that serpent,
Out of her wearied bed.
To give her time to make the porridge and comb her head.
3
When she goes to measure the milk,
Well - in (th) troth it is a sin,
She'll "howl" the measure to one side,
While all the milk teams in
The man that wants a dairy - maid
To measure milk with skill
He can go for that humped hippocrite
That serves on Jolly Hill.(continues on next page)
- Informant
- Edward Mc Grory
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 86
- Address
- Meenagory, Co. Donegal
