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GUEST,John Moulden Lyr Req: Paddy from Cork (17) RE: Lyr Req: Paddy from Cork 25 Mar 11

Here's a bit for you:

        Paddy from Cork has never been
        Never a railway train has seen
        Never has seen the great machine
        That runs on the iron railway.
(Alice Kane: Songs and Sayings of an Ulster Childhood page74 - edited by Edith Fowke)

Other bits are in Lady Gomme's book about Children's Games (vol. 2 p. 36); David Holbrook's Children's Games p. 117 and elsewhere. Edith Fowke only knew of one North American report, collected by Leonora Pauls from Arthur Rowe of Edmonton in 1981 but I have no idea where that version ended up.

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