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THE WEDDING OF PADDY O'CARROLL.
In eighteen hundred and sixteen in sweet July we leave the scene,
There was a wedding held one day near to a place called George's-quay;
A mountaineer as I do protest there did assemble many a guest.
Now I most solemnly declarr I'll tell you all that I saw there.
There was a wedding held one day near to a place called George's-quay;
A mountaineer as I do protest there did assemble many a guest.
Now I most solemnly declarr I'll tell you all that I saw there.
Of rebels came down from Tramore about seven and twenty score,
Of rich and poor, old and young, lame and blind deaf and dumb;
There were tinkers, barbers, brewers, bakers,
Carpenters, likewise broguemakers.
Of rich and poor, old and young, lame and blind deaf and dumb;
There were tinkers, barbers, brewers, bakers,
Carpenters, likewise broguemakers.
Fifty set of sparrible weavers, gunsmiths, blacksmiths and nailors,
Bogtrotters and street pavers, bobbin-tossers,
Millers' doctors. key-hole whistlers and tithe proctors.
Painters, glaziers, backlers, cutlers, coachmen, footmen, cooks and bntlers.
Bogtrotters and street pavers, bobbin-tossers,
Millers' doctors. key-hole whistlers and tithe proctors.
Painters, glaziers, backlers, cutlers, coachmen, footmen, cooks and bntlers.
Besides to this a sample came a multitude I cannot name,
With harps, fifes and fiddles too they were all a jovial crew.
They all got seated round about to dishes of caulcannon stont.
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They all got seated round about to dishes of caulcannon stont.
Melier they would at their will they'd sour butter milk to drink their fill,
That would take off without a lie the pearl of a piper's eye.
Delicious smoothers next came in on large platters made of tin.
That would take off without a lie the pearl of a piper's eye.
Delicious smoothers next came in on large platters made of tin.
There was lobsters, oysters and cow-heels, musoles cockles and fat eels,
There was sheep's trotters, half-boiled tripes, grains and pleavers, larks and snipe.
And to this wedding did return a hungry tailor this did mourn,
This greedy tailor is hungry still, curse on his gut, give him his fill.
There was sheep's trotters, half-boiled tripes, grains and pleavers, larks and snipe.
And to this wedding did return a hungry tailor this did mourn,
This greedy tailor is hungry still, curse on his gut, give him his fill.
The cook bronght out a dish of keale, mixed with oil and barley meal.
With sallad, sarlet, liquorice stick, salary, onions and garlick,
With earrots, parsnips and chie, the scrapings of an old bee-hive,
Mixed with blackberries and allspice, hog's lard, and the brains of mice,
With sallad, sarlet, liquorice stick, salary, onions and garlick,
With earrots, parsnips and chie, the scrapings of an old bee-hive,
Mixed with blackberries and allspice, hog's lard, and the brains of mice,
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