The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #52170   Message #799434
Posted By: Big Tim
09-Oct-02 - 10:07 AM
Thread Name: Help: does anyone know song:Mother McGee
Subject: RE: Help: does anyone know song:Mother McGee
CB: "The Peeler [policeman] and the Goat" was once very popular, a satire about the role of the Royal Irish Constabulary during the "Land War", 1880s+. Colm O'Lochlainn gives all 8 verses in his first Ballad book. Here's the first:

Oh the Bansha peelers went out one night,
On duty and patrolling-O,
They met a goat upon the road,
And took [arrested] him for being a-strolling-O,
With bayonets fixed they sallied forth,
And caught him by the wizzen[?]-O,
And then swore out a mighty oath,
They'd send him off to prison-0