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1. The Cow that Was Going to Roscrea (continued)

   

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   you a license to bring back your cows from Fermoy. You've a license for selling your hunter, a license for keeping your dog. And a license a bull for your cattle and dump his poor calves in the bog.

   You've a license for selling your bacon, a license to purchase your maize. But wait til you read the next budget with a license for hunting the fleas. You've a license for fishing the rivers a license for sugar and tea. May the Lord give a license to hang them says the cow that was going to Roscrea.

   You've wheat schemes, beet schemes, and turf schemes open to all. You are loosing your money to pay a crowd of calf-skinners up in the Dail. You've dentists, professors, and doctors and with lawyers the place it is full. And others who are making the law who don't know a cow from a bull.

   Oh talk of the markets they will find you with the flattering speeches they'll make. There is not a farmer in Ireland but that crowd will surely break. So here's my last prayer as I am parting I hope God will grant it to me. That my spirit may come back to haunt them when my bones will be crushed in Roscrea.

   

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   History Edit

   Language

   English

   Collector

   John Foley

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Shanahill East, Co. Kerry