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Thread #109913   Message #2301183
Posted By: Rog Peek
30-Mar-08 - 01:25 PM
Thread Name: Wild Mountain Thyme - Why doesn't it rhyme
Subject: RE: Wild Mountain Thyme - Why doesn't it rhy
The most un-rhyming (probably made that up) song I know is The Galway races:

As I roved out to Galway Town to seek for recreation
On the seventeenth of August my mind was elevated
There were multitudes assembled with their tickets at the station
And my eyes began to dazzle and they're going to see the races

Chorus
With a wack fol the do fol the diddley didle aye

There were passengers from Limerick and passengers from Nenagh
Passengers from Dublin, sportsmen from Tipperary
There were passengers from Kerry all the quarters of the nation
And our member Mr. Hasset for to join the Galway Blazers

There were multitudes from Aran and members from New Quay shore
The boys from Connemara and the Clare unmarried maidens
There were people from Cork City who were loyal, true and faithful
That brought home Fenian prisoners from dying in foreign nations

It's there you'll see confectioners with sugarsticks and dainties
The lozenges and oranges, the lemonade and raisins
The gingerbread and spices to accommodate the ladies
And a big crubeen for threepence to be picking while your able

It's there you'll see the gamblers the thimbles and the garters
And the sporting Wheel of Fortune with the four and twenty quarters
There were others without scruple pelting wattles at poor Maggy
And her father well contented and he looking at his daughter

It's there you'll see the pipers and the fiddlers competing
The nimble footed dancers and they dancing on the daisies
There were others crying "cigars and lights and bills for all the races
With the colours of the jockeys and the prizes and horses' ages

It's there you'll see the jockeys and they mounted up most stately
The pink and blue the red and green the emblem of our nation
When the bell was rung for starting all the horses seemed impatient
I thought they never stood on ground their speed was so amazing

There was half a million people there of all denominations
The Catholic, the Protestant, the Jew, the Presbyterian
Yet there was no animosity no matter what persuasion
But joy and hospitality inducing fresh acquaintance


Garters and quarters are the closest, otherwise nothing.
Made it a difficult song to learn by heart.

Rog