When I was a gossoon
of eight years or so
with me books and me bags
off to school I did go
To a battered old school house
without any door
where lay the school master
blind drunk on the floor

Singing Baine na Mo 's 'n gowna
and the juice of the barley for me

Someone else who actually knows this song the whole way through should probably add to this as there are a few more verses and I've misspelt a few words in the first line of the chorus. (not being an Irish speaker)