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1. Local Cures (continued)

   

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   and it holds water all the year round you dip your finger in the water three times Father Son and Holy Ghost. I heard them of my mother, Brigid Kennedy
   Mrs Annie Kennedy. Emyvale

   

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2. The Cow that Ate the Piper

   

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   In the year ninty eight,
   when our troubles were great,
   It was a treason to be a milesian,
   Those black whiskered set,
   I will never forget,
   Whom history tells us were hessians,
   In those heart rending times.
   there were all sorts of crimes,
   and murdering it never were ripen
   On the side of Glencrea,
   not an acre for me,
   lived on Denis Brynee the piper.

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   Neither wedding nor wake,
   was worth an ould shake,
   If Denny was not first invited
   And it squeezing of bags,

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   Topics

   1. genre
      1. poetry
         1. folk poetry (~9,504)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Brigid Kennedy

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Emyvale, Co. Monaghan

   Informant

   Kenneth P. Kennedy

   Relation

   Parent

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Emyvale, Co. Monaghan