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Thread #9930   Message #150608
Posted By: McGrath of Harlow
16-Dec-99 - 08:55 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Night that O'Rafferty's Pig Ran Away
Subject: RE: O'Rafferty's Pig - Could anyone help please?
I'm Kevin McGrath. If you look in the bbc rogues gallery there's a photo of me.I suppose if I was French I could be a Jean.

Well it's not in Folksongs and Ballads popular in Ireland. Still no luck.

I could give you "The Peeler and the Goat" (which is in the DT, (but they call Bansha, where my godfather Will Gavin lived "Penshaw"), or "Nell Flaherty's Drake" (and that's in the DT too - but they have Nell living in Clonmel instead of Cootehill, but that's fine by me, because it gives me a Clonmel song which is easier to sing than "The Convict of Cluinmealla"); and "Brannigan's Pup" -which is also in the DT, as "Old Mickey Brannigan's Pup". And the DT's also got "Delaney's Donkey and "Paddty McGinty's Goat".

But the pig seems to have given us all a clean pair of heels, so far.