School: Carrigans (B.)
- Location:
- Carrigan, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: P. Ó Dochartaigh
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- (continued from previous page)o daddy the cow are the piper.
Bad luck to the beast she had a musical taste to eat such a beautiful chanter.
Paddy a vick get a lump of a stick
to drive her to Glenally to cant her.
VI
The cow she was drove a mile or two off
to the side of the town called Glenally.
Where the creature was sold for four guineas in gold
to the clerk of the parish Jim Daly.
They went into a tent the luck penny spent
for the clerk was the devils own spiper.
VII
Who the blazes was there playing the rakes of Kildare
but poor Denny Byrne the piper
Tim gave a bout like a half broken coult
and Denny he looked like a gomack
He said "by the power I thought these eight hours
you were swimming through the "drim" of the stomack.
Now since we met our whistles we'll wet
like devils we'll dance round the piper
- Collector
- Michael Conlon
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 13
- Address
- Shannow, Co. Cavan
- Informant
- Hugh Smith
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 60
- Address
- Shannow, Co. Cavan
