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Thread #152552 Message #3569127
Posted By: Jim Carroll
23-Oct-13 - 03:19 AM
Thread Name: Folklore-Origin: I'll go to the foot of our stairs
Subject: RE: Folklore: Origin:I'll go to the foot of our stairs
'there'll be wigs on the green' Irish saying, included in one of the verses of 'The Limerick Rake' - I've always associated it with faction fighting.. The verse below refers to a poteen still Jim Carroll
The Cow can be milked without clover or grass For she's pampered with corn, good barley and hops She's warm and she's stout , and she'd free in her paps And she'll milk without spancell or halter. And the man that will milk her will cock his caubeen, and if anyone coughs tharell be wigs on the green And the feeble old hag will get supple and free. Agus fágaimid suídmar atá sé.