School: Lios Dubh (roll number 6661)
- Location:
- An Lios Dubh, Co. Thiobraid Árann
- Teacher: Caitlín, Bean Uí Artáin
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“An old song which used to be sung by Jim Davis a man who used to work with the farmers of the locality some forty years ago.”
An old song which used to be sung by Jim Davis a man who used to work with the farmers of the locality some forty years ago. He used to have two bones (ribs of an animal) in each hand he would rattle them to the tune of the ?. He lived at Denis Egan's ? and was at a wedding in Faleen near Ballymackey, where he died suddenly.
If there's any nice young lady
would wish to marry me
I'll bring her to that little isle
the isle across the sea
Ill suppor her like a lady
And I'll do the best I can
To let the people know
that. I'm an Irish gentleman
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Arise to every morning & rise into
like the lark
And as I'm going to my work
the factory girls remark
Hello Patsy Fegan you can hear the ladies cry
There goes Patsy Fegan on him I've(continues on next page)
- Informant
- Mrs Mc Cormac
- Other names
- Mrs Mc Cormac
- Ní Cearbhaill
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Cluain na gCeannach, Co. Uíbh Fhailí