School: Cnoc Breac (roll number 13041)
- Location:
- Knockbrack, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Séamus Ó Conchubhair
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0450, Page 226
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- Now kind farmers pay me attention,
A doleful story to you I will tell,
About those creamery I'll tell,
They were invented by limbs from hell,
Your pans and barrels now are forsaken,
There is no redemption for ever more,
While creamery milk will be in operation,
Your stomach & your bowels sore,
It is well compounded with nitrate soda,
to separate both the cream & fat.
It would kill a tiger at forty paces,
And it is a deadly enemy to dog or cat,
You are all acquainted with Michael Leary,
That jolly tailor with the rolling eyes,
They bought his land and they built a dairy,
And contemplated on a big supply,
When he drank his milk he got constipation,
His stomach swelled like a piper's bag,
And now he is passing worms & inflammation
And manure superior to basic Slag.
The very donkeys make lamentations
Their backs are broken both night and day
The boys and girls are getting lazy
And the country's bankrupt from drinking tay
So now kind farmers pay me attention
Make your butter as in days of yore(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Eileen O' Connor
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Tadhg Mc Govern
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Dromlegagh, Co. Kerry
