School: Coolronan (roll number 16247)
- Location:
- Coolronan, Co. Meath
- Teacher: Bean Uí Chonmhidhe
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0694, Page 434
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- (continued from previous page)crooked horse etc.
Heres the crooked woman that married the crooked man that rode the crooked horse etc.
that ate the crooked grass
that grew crooked around the
"Crooked Crab Tree
- The Cobbler & the Tinker
(Tapping your foot sing)
Merry we are and merry we'll be
Said the Cobbler to the Tinker
Cobbler Tin take care
Said the Cobbler to the tinker
You'll sing Cobb and you'll sing leir
Youll sing tin and youll take care
Of the cobler and the tinker
You'll sing black and you'll sing blue
youll sing starch and you'll sing too
Said the cobbler and the tinker
(Start at Cobbleir again) Cob leir tin take care etc;
youd answer at "cob" or you go down and get a blow.Etne Conway got this from Tom McKeon, Ballivor. He is about seventy. - Collector
- Etne Conway
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Tom Mc Keon
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- c. 70
- Address
- Ballivor, Co. Meath
