School: Naomh Pádraig, Carrowmena (roll number 16787)
- Location:
- Carrowmenagh, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Pádraig S. Ó Cathain
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1118, Page 385
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Song (continued)
“Come all ye rakish swell young men that coorts a blooming maid, ¶ Nivir tell your saycret to friend or comerade.”
(continued from previous page)men that coorts a blooming maid,
Nivir tell your saycret to friend or comerade,
For like Judas they'll desave you, and that right well I know,
I've proved it by experience and now I find it so.
II
Once I coorted a blooming girl, the darling of my heart,
Not a time that ever we met I thought we never would part,
Until some simple tales of loves I told to a young man,
I thought I might depend on him as I ofttimes stood his friend,
He went unto my own true love and this to her did say,
I would have you quit his company and from him stay away,
For he said he would desave you and that would happen soon,
If you do not quit his company he will spoil your youthful bloom.
III
When she heard these stories it grieved her heart full sore,(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Michael Breslin
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Carrowblagh or Leckemy, Co. Donegal
- Informant
- Miss Mary Doherty
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 76
- Address
- Carrowmenagh, Co. Donegal