School: Log na nGall (roll number 15663)
- Location:
- Lugnagall, Co. Sligo
- Teachers: Tomás Ó Hodhráin Bean Uí Hodhráin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0157, Page 268
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Local Song
“In these ages of steam-engine power,”
I
In these ages of steam-engine power,
When people are travelling away
Men would travel more in an hour
Than they formerly would in a day.
But of all the great mode of conveyance
Which now afford pleasure and joy
One which is worth your while paying
Is driven by noble Jack Hoey.
Chorus Why fol de dol dol de dum diddle
Why fol de dum dol de dum day
Why fold de dum dol de dum diddle
Why fol the dum dol de dum day.
II.
He drives the great men of the nation,
The peer and the lord of the plain,
No matter of what rank or station,
Or what views he may choose to maintain
You will there see the bashful young maiden
Situated alongside of her boy
They inherit the garden of Eden
When driven by noble Jack Hoey
chorus(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Róisín Horan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Drum East, Co. Sligo
- Informant
- James Devins
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 75
- Address
- Drum East, Co. Sligo