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1. A Local Song - Sir John and His Runaway Bus

   

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   I suppose you mind the time, Of the first inventions of trains and motor cars. Me an my wife we lived together, We bought an ass from ass dealers in Cross, On account of my granfather I called him Sir john. One day my wife told me her tea was run short, And I would have to go to town for bread, bacon, and salt. When I was going down by the convent gates on a slipping decline, I turned round to see what was coming behind, All I could see was a house on the

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   Topics

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

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Annie Shevlin

   Gender

   Female

   Age

   12

   Address

   Annagleve, Co. Monaghan