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1. Drumdoe Ass (continued)

   

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   In full his fate, I can't relate but they riddled him I'm told They threw hand grenades so fast on him theyd time to explode And when exhausted throwing bombs and unbolted rifles too. They swung in action machine guns to prolong the whillolo The people round Lake Arrow and the hills of Ballindoon Were sure the green coats marched again to the rising of the moon But early morn brought good news when by the break of day Some short distance from the soldier's lodge the bleeding victim lay Now they may boast about their airmen and their bomb proof lorry shields Or when the Germans marched towards Paris how the Belgians held the field But their firing shot and shrapnel or their spreading poisonous gas Was only sport to the shelling caused at Drumdoe by an ass

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      1. poetry
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   Language

   English

   Location

   Drumdoe, Co. Roscommon

   Informant

   Mr Tom Martin

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Fostragh, Co. Roscommon