School: Roisín (roll number 12395)
- Location:
- Rusheen, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Cáit, Bean Uí Chorcoráin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0343, Page 125
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Local Songs (continued)
“I will now write down a few verses of a local song which I heard. Its name is "Sweet Ballinagree" a town land in this parish, and it was composed by Mr Corneilus O' Carroll.”
(continued from previous page)The familiar faces I knew there so well,
Seán Enrí a tugging the prayer calling bell.I can hear "Michil Dearg" go shouting away,
As he earns "a tanar" some cow gone astray,
And smacking his lips Jerry Carroll "Says I",
He's leaving the chapel there's somebody dry.There goes "Jack Bill" his paws full of wax,
His hammer, his nails, his alls, and his tacks,
And then Jack the Joiner relating the tale,
Of the fright that he got from the hunger in jail.
- Collector
- Joan Neville
- Gender
- Female