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    From David Dalton@21:1/5 to All on Tue Oct 31 03:55:48 2023
    XPost: rec.music.folk, uk.music.folk, nf.general
    XPost: soc.culture.irish, ie.general

    "In the merry month of June from me home I started
    Left the girls of Tuam nearly broken hearted
    Saluted Father dear, kissed me darling mother
    Drank a pint of beer, me grief and tears to smother
    Then off to reap the corn, leave where I was born
    Cut a stout blackthorn to banish ghosts and goblins
    A brand new pair of brogues, rattlin' o'er the bogs
    Frightenin' all the dogs on the rocky road to Dublin

    One two three four five
    Hunt the Hare and turn her down the rocky road
    And all the way to Dublin, Whack fol lol le rah!”

    --
    David Dalton dalton@nfld.com https://www.nfld.com/~dalton (home page) https://www.nfld.com/~dalton/dtales.html Salmon on the Thorns (mystic page) "And the cart is on a wheel; And the wheel is on a hill;
    And the hill is shifting sand; And inside these laws we stand" (Ferron)

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  • From David Dalton@21:1/5 to All on Tue Oct 31 15:25:27 2023
    XPost: rec.music.folk, uk.music.folk, nf.general
    XPost: soc.culture.irish, ie.general

    On Oct 31, 2023, David Dalton wrote
    (in article<0001HW.2AF0D56C0013255C7000040B638F@news.eternal-september.org>):

    "In the merry month of June from me home I started
    Left the girls of Tuam nearly broken hearted
    Saluted Father dear, kissed me darling mother
    Drank a pint of beer, me grief and tears to smother
    Then off to reap the corn, leave where I was born
    Cut a stout blackthorn to banish ghosts and goblins
    A brand new pair of brogues, rattlin' o'er the bogs
    Frightenin' all the dogs on the rocky road to Dublin

    One two three four five
    Hunt the Hare and turn her down the rocky road
    And all the way to Dublin, Whack fol lol le rah!”

    The way to banish ghosts and goblins who show up on
    your doorstep this evening is to give them a sweet treat. :-)

    Samhain Blessings to any readers!

    --
    David Dalton dalton@nfld.com https://www.nfld.com/~dalton (home page) https://www.nfld.com/~dalton/dtales.html Salmon on the Thorns (mystic page) "And the cart is on a wheel; And the wheel is on a hill;
    And the hill is shifting sand; And inside these laws we stand" (Ferron)

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