School: Glassalts (roll number 1239)
- Location:
- Glasalt or Treanfasy, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: M. P. Ó Dochartaigh
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1116, Page 119
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- (continued from previous page)them has a melodeon or a mouth organ etc.
There was a rich Jew and he lived in jerusale.
He always had his dinner at a quarter to eleven-e-um.
Gloria allelulia old Roger-um.Then one of the Rhymers gives a step dance or sometimes it is a four-hand reel or sometimes a figure dance. Then they march around floor hand in hand and sing:- We'll all join hands together. And we'll never fight no more
And be the "Royalest" brothers that ever was before With our pockets full of money and your barrels full of beer.
We wish you happy Christmas and a bright new year.
We didn't come to your door to beg nor borrow.
We came to your door to drive away all sorrow
God bless the Master and the Mistress also(continues on next page)
