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School: Banagher (B.)

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Banagher, Co. Offaly
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Séamus Ó Maoilchéire
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0816, Page 456

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    Who'll buy the milk cans, sugar cakes and wine.
    The other line says:-
    We'll buy the milk cans, milk cans, milk cans.
    We'll buy the milk cans, sugar cakes and wine.
    The first line says:-
    Where'll ye get the money, get the money, get the money.
    Where'll ye get the money, sugar cakes and wine.
    Second line repeats:-
    We'll see father's feather bed, feather bed, feather bed.
    We'll sell father's feather bed, sugar cakes and wine.
    1st line:- Then where'll father lie, father lie, father lie. Then where'll father lie, sugar cakes and wine.
    2nd line:- Father'll lie in brothers bed, brothers bed, brothers bed.
    Father'll like in brothers bed, sugar cakes and wine.
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    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. social activities (~7)
        1. entertainments and recreational activities (~5,933)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    James J. Mulhare
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Cloghan, Co. Offaly