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Thread #100389 Message #3121338
Posted By: GUEST,John Moulden
25-Mar-11 - 11:57 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Paddy from Cork
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Paddy from Cork
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.