Volume: CBÉ 0220 (Part 1)

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   “This is a song that was composed by a local poet...”

   

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   This is a song that was composed by a local poet or supposed to be at any rate, about an inquest that was held over a man named Paddy Mullowney. He got drunk and he hurt himself and was given up as dead but was not really dead but the inquest went on so this song was composed about him.

   I
   Twas Paddy Mullowney, so golly and frisky.
   Went into Ashekeen to get his sack full
   But tumbled out again well dosed with ould whiskey.
   As silly as an old ass and as blind as a fool.

   II
   But abit of an accident met with our rover
   Who struck the wall's edge with the side of his head
   And the lid of a coal box he just tumbled over
   And he fancied the while he was going

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   Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.

   History Edit

   Date

   6 Iúil 1936

   Item type

   Lore

   Language

   Béarla

   Writing mode

   Handwritten

   Writing script

   Roman script