School: Gowna
- Location:
- Scrabby, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: Hugh Murray
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0986, Page 017
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“One night of late I chanced to stray”
One night of late I chanced to stray
I was full of melancholy
I took a trip to see the Dancing-master Foley
When I went there the door was barred
And to go in I'd scorn
Until I was invited by the owner of the barn
With my whack it along and crack it along
jig - it along Tikéaro
When I went there I was struck with a sensation
To see long Keegan with his teeth
Keeping regulation.
Its there they lepped and they they pranced
No mules could do it harder
And the Friarys busy all the time
Keeping their brogues in order
There was a Draper's boy from Arva
That all the time kept smiling
And dirty-faced Fitzsimons and
Two sons of Mrs Boylan
There was Peter Keogh and Frank McCabe
And a fellow they called the Dagger
Two sons of Mattheen Mahons and Johnny Denning's black guard
- Informant
- Mary Philipine Phildy Reilly
- Gender
- Female