School: Clandouglas, Lic Snámha (roll number 10380)

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1. A Local Song (continued)

   “I'm a lover of the game-bock team, my voice once more I''ll raise.”

   

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   So he lodged a grand Objection, and this is what he said
   I must get that Causeway Match, or a re-play instead.
   For if I don't get that Causeway Match, I swear upon my word
   I'll bring an action down against the Kerry Co. Board.

   When I heard the Objection, I got an awful start,
   And seeing it on illegal field, it pierced my very heart,
   Lime lines and the devil knows what, Chapter ten and page sixty-two
   I shook my head but not with dread, saying Mike I will meet you.

   So we agreed for a re-play, of course poor Mike to yield
   He called Tralee Athletic grounds, a legal field.
   We gave him cause to think of it, for many the helpless toss,
   And instead of seeing, we made him kiss the lime lines on the grass.

   Success to P. McElligott, likewise his brother Jack,
   Also Arnold Parkinson, who played the grateful back,
   Likewise Patty Mangan, who played his man all round,
   And not forgetting Parker's Jerk, the ranger from the Town.

   Here's a health to the two Gleasures, Parkinson's Bob and Relihans Den,
   Whelan, Ware, and Galvin, likewise to Jamsey Wynne
   Nobler chaps than these, before I never met
   They passed the slitter through the field and smashed the Tubrid net.

   Good luck to our Goal's man Cronin, and our gallant Captain Bill
   And to our representative, who's duty did full fill

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   Topics

   1. genre
      1. poetry
         1. folk poetry (~9,504)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Kitty Cronin

   Gender

   Female