School: Achadh Fobhair (roll number 13853)

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1. Local Songs (continued)

   

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   And left three little orphans
   Without one drop of milk.
   II
   Billy Tracey the poor man
   His wife she did die
   And left three little orphans
   To weep and to cry
   III
   Billy Tuffy the baliff
   I mean Crotty's man
   He raised the rent
   on our forefathers land
   He would drive an old duck
   or a hen I declare
   And leave the Kenury women
   All tearing their hair,
   IV
   The gentry of England
   They did very bad
   When they did not marry Miss Garndiner
   To Crotty the bad
   For it is through Kenury

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   History Edit

   Topics

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

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Jack Sheridan

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Aghagower, Co. Mayo