School: Muine Mór (roll number 13456)
- Location:
- Meenymore, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Liam Ó Briain
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0195, Page 426
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An Old Song
“Last Friday morning the commissioners came to bonn.”
An old song.
Last Friday morning the commissioners came to bonn.
They asked his where was brace McKenna or his good neighbour Jon.
They asked him was he bycotted had he any neoghbor here.
And when they saw the story farmthey quickly took their steer.
They ran confused through meeneymore they said bonns place looked like hell.
And when they reached Lock Melvin shore it was then they began to tell.
They said that bonn was like a slave or some old worn drudge.
That keeps a hotel for tinkers at slievenard bridge.
They say his mother a low stout woman with a pair of cooked legs.
She had beside the fire some potatoes and duck eggs,
They asked the woman what shed keep.
She says a cow rent fee and bonn he then made answer another cow for me. But then the woman she spoke up we nearly live rent free.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Kathleen Anne Mc Partlin
- Gender
- Female