School: Leac Dhearg (Lickerrig)
- Location:
- Lickerrig, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Séamus Ó Dubhda
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0034, Page 0153
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- Figure a one, Long Tom
Figure a two, Button your shoe
Figure a three, Lady Mc Gee
Figure a four, Bore a hole
Figure a five, Herrings alive
Figure a six, Black sticks
Figure a seven, Go to heaven
Figure a eight, Lick the plate
Figure a nine, John Ryan
Figure a ten, Lady Mc Ginn.Here is the crooked crab tree.
Here is the crooked grass that grew under the crooked crab tree.
Here is the crooked sheep that ate the crooked grass +e
Here is the crooked knife that killed the crooked sheep +e
Here is the crooked butcher that (that) held the crooked knife +e
Here is the crooked rope, that hanged the crooked butcher, that held the crooked knife, that killed the crooked sheep, that ate the crooked grass that grew under the crooked crab-tree.
