The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #109169   Message #2284169
Posted By: Jack Blandiver
10-Mar-08 - 06:16 AM
Thread Name: Best Line in a Song
Subject: RE: Best Line in a Song
Don't get too gay in Botany Bay unless you be well hung; unless you be well hung me boys, and after that Jim Jones, way up upon the gallows high, the crows will pick your bones...

Otherwise:

Sweeney the thin-groined it is,
in the middle of the yew...


Is that Flann O'Brien's translation? Alas I can't lay my hands on either At Swim-Two-Birds OR Sweeney Astray (Seamus Heaney). Meanwhile making do with Buile Suibhne. It's a sair fecht, as Oor Wullie would say.