School: Cullen, Tiobraid Árann (roll number 7245)
- Location:
- Cullen, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Seosamh Mainséal
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0581, Page 228
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- Christmas is coming the geese are getting fat
Please put a penny in the old man's hat.
Christmas comes but once a year
And when it comes it brings good cheer.
A bottle of wine a bottle of beer
And I wish you all a Happy New Year
The wren! the wren! the king of all birds
St Stephen's day she was caught in the furze
Holly and ivy well set up.
The man of the house and every good luck
I wish you all a happy Christmas and a Merry New Year.
At Cullen cross we broke her knee.
And brought her here in a holly tree.
If you havent a copper a half-penny will do
And if you have not that may God bless you.
This is the wren that you may see with a scarlat scarf around her knee.
A bunch of laurels by her side, and the Cullen boys to be her guide.
We are following this wren all day all day
Through mud through brans and yellow clay
Give us our answer and let us be gone
A couple of pence to burry the wren.
We knocked her door and she could not see,
and brought her home on a holly tree.(continues on next page)
