School: Kiltrustan (roll number 4111)
- Location:
- Kiltrustan, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: M. Mac Tighearnáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0250, Page 029
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Proverbs and Song
“Twas on the slopes of sweet Doonard Peter Thompson he holds sway”
Proverbs and Song
1 Hills are green far away.
2 Fools should have good memories.
3 A bird in the hand is worth two in a bush.
4 When the cat is out the mice can play.
5 An old cat has no need to teach her son.
6 Its a long road that has not a turn.
7 There is no fire-place like your own fire-place.
Sweet Doonard.
This is a song that was composed by a man named Francis Ryan a few years ago.
I
Twas on the slopes of sweet Doonard Peter Thompson he holds sway
Where he gives the signal to fall in at half-past eight each day
The men tired from their journeys in sheltry corners lurk.
When that infernal whistle shrieks to summons all to work.
II
The men is all picked in pairs to build their ditch in co:
While up and down beside them the gangers on they go.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- John P. Beirne
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Tullen, Co. Roscommon