School: Derreenargan
- Location:
- Derreenargan, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Pádhraic Ó Fionnáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0232, Page 237
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- Good Morning Mick Leydon,
They call you the brag,
You would look very thin
Only for Healy's old tag,
It fits you so neatly, only for
your small head.Every morning you rise you
should pray for the dead
Mick has a watchguard that
makes people laugh,
And to crown his dishonesty he
sold a brown calf.
All the people that know him says
he's a queer boy,
What else would you expect from the tail of Fermoyle
His head, it is high and his notions are big
All the people round Keadew calls Mickeen, the prig,
At a wake or a funeral he is sure to be there,
But, he never get's drunk until
he goes to a fair,(continues on next page)
