School: Clochar na Trócaire, Cappamore

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1. Mulcaire Drainage (continued)

   

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   When we land on the bank, into it we will peep
   And down in the mud, we will go knee deep
   We will work now away the truth I must tell
   We get called for our lunch at the Angelus bell
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   We have scarcely been working a day now or so
   When up to the Foreman Jim Doyle he did go,
   Saying "Mr. Kilduff we can't hold working this way.
   For there is no man on earth could hold drinking cold tea"
   The Foreman he looked and jumped like a turk
   Saying "Its better Jim Doyle to go back to your work,
   Or very soon then, I will give you a change
   I will send you straight back to the Labour Exchange"
   Jim Doyle said no more, to his work he did go
   To straighten the banks where the Mulcaire flows

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   History Edit

   Topics

   1. genre
      1. poetry
         1. folk poetry (~9,504)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Lil Ní Riain

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Cappamore, Co. Limerick

   Informant

   Pádraig Ó Riain

   Gender

   Male