School: Gráig (2) (roll number 3402)
- Location:
- Graigueadrisly, Co. Laois
- Teacher: M. Ní Laighean
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0829, Page 024
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Old Songs
“You natives of Crosspatrick ¶ If your hurry is not too great”
You natives of Crosspatrick
If your hurry is not too great
Come listen to a tragedy
That happened here of late
The curious looking animal
Resembling much a skunk.
On Sunday morning early.
She got drowned in a pump.
CHORUS
This old mare was bred of fences.
And fences she could jump.
And she sailed onto Crosspatrick
And got drowned in a pump.
II
She belonged to William Delaney.
And you may know that same
For the want of king treatment
She both bling and lame
For the want of due subsistance.
She could neither walk nor jump
She came unto Crosspatrick
And rolled into the pump.
III
This old mare before she died(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Martha Dalton
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Clonmeen South, Co. Laois
- Informant
- David Dalton
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 52
- Occupation
- Labourer
- Address
- Clonmeen South, Co. Laois