School: Gleann Calraighe (roll number 15864)

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1. Amhrán (continued)

   “Oh! you jolly lads and lassies”

   

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   Since the days of Phelim Brady their equals were not seen,
   For if nature endowed me for the gift of telling lies,
   At the Annual Competition I would sweetly take the prize.

   

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2. Amhrán

   “On the fourth day of November in the year of 1908”

   

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   I was invited to a wedding by the squire of this place There was whiskey rum and brandy, ginger beer, and wine And all the lads and lassies together did combine, We had lovely Thomas Tomas there the flower of them all, He could play his melodian at every concert and ball, He was the rural postman and the girls knew it too, For it was early next morning I heard he stripped a shoe, We had Patrick Leneghan there he was a holy show, And likewise Thomas Moran from the County of Mayo

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