School: Meall an tSrutháin (roll number 2117)
- Location:
- Maulatrahane, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Dll. Ó Luasaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0299, Page 138
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When I come home at night
My poor wife is in tears
Her mother being telling her
Things that she hears
She hears that I gamble
She hears that I drink
And at all the good-looking girls I wink
II
She hears that I wear a big flower in in my coat
And go down to the Quay with a girl in a boat
I can tolerate her uncle and tolerate her aunt
But I can't stand Mrs Green's mother, I can't
III
I'll kill her some day and I'm damned if I don't
For I can't sand Mrs Green's Mother I can't
I can time with her uncle and time with her aunt
But I can't stand(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Maire Ni Choileain
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Coornishal, Co. Cork
