School: St Canice's, Aghaboe (roll number 16939)
- Location:
- Aghaboe, Co. Laois
- Teacher: Aine Ní Dhubhlaoigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0829, Page 473
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Old Rhymes
“My father was a brick-layers daughter, He worked in a tailor's shop....”
My father was a brick-layers daughter,
He worked in a tailor's shop,
He was going up a bucket,
With a ladder full of bricks,
And he fell from the bottom to the top.
It [there] was midnight on the ocean,
And a tram-car came in sight,
And a bare footed boy with his boots on,
And it rained all day that nightAs I went to a bazaar,
One day in the middle of the night,
I took a front seat in the back,
I fell from the floor to the roof,
And I broke the front bone of my back.
A Song
“The praising of a lovely girl, I am now going to unfold....”
I.
The praising of a lovely girl,
I am now going to unfold,
Her lovely hair hung down her back in ruddy links of gold.
Her cheeks they are of rosy red
And her eyes of a dazzling blue(continues on next page)