The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #4861   Message #143409
Posted By: Barry Finn
01-Dec-99 - 07:28 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Add: Darby O'Leary
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: darby o leary
I've got a few different lines in here just in case you'd be interested

To the County Tipperary I (straight took my way) or:
I was making me way
A cup of sour milk that (was more green than white) or:
that would fiss a gas snipe (no idea on that meaning just that Mick Maloney told me it was an expression used back home & I don't recall what that expression was trying to express)
He worked me by day and he worked me by night
While he held an old candle to give me some light
I wished his potatoes would die of the blight
Or himself would go off with the fairies. or:
By what he said then I well understood
That me bed in the barn it was not very good
For the blankets were made at the time of the flood
& the quilts & the sheets in (proportion ?)

Barry