School: Caisleán Uí Liatháin (B.) (roll number 1867)
- Location:
- Castlelyons, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Éamonn Ó Ceallacháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0381, Page 131
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Old Songs
“I knew an old thatcher a long time ago.”
I knew an old thatcher a long time ago.
He was the jolliest old creature as you would wish to know
He sang an old ditty throughout the long day,
It went daddy-dum-diddy, O diddy-dum day.The jokers around got a twist of his song.
They hummed and they hawed at it all the day long.
Daddy-dum-diddy one bright boy would say
Another would answer O diddy-dum-day.In school if a youngster gor mazed with a sum
In a fit of abstraction he forwith would hum
Daddy-dum-diddy the favourite lay
And a class-mate would echo O diddy-dum-day.Some time in the night even now you will hear
Some poor harrassed farmer going home from the fair
To keep up his spirits as prices dont pay(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Patrick Leahy
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Castlelyons, Co. Cork
- Informant
- John Leahy
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Castlelyons, Co. Cork