School: Radharc na Sionainne (roll number 16477)
- Location:
- Clooncah, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Nóirín Ní Uiginn
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0260, Page 184
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- "Master McGrath" the sergeant said
Would you like to make a soldier of your son, Ted,
And to give him a sword instead of a stick
To see the spalpeen he would lick
With the to-ra-ra, with the fiddle diddle da
With the to ry-ru-ria rady-oWere you drunk or were you blind
When you left your two fine legs behind
Or were you working over the sea
When you wore your two legs to your knees?
I was not drunk or I was not blind
When I left my two fine legs behind
Nor was I working over the seas
When I wore my two legs to the knees
But a cannon ball came that way
And swept my two fine legs away.Mrs McGrath don't you know there is fifteen quid for every toe
And if I had ten toes more to spare
I would go to Spain and leave them there
With the to ra ra with the fiddle diddle da
With the to ry ru ria rady o.
