Anonymous English

The cow jump’d over the moon;The little dog laugh’dTo see such craft,And the dish ran away with the spoon.

I AM the wind which breathes upon the sea,I am the wave of the ocean,I am the murmur of the billows,I am the ox of the seven combats,I am the vulture upon the rocks,I am a beam of the sun,I am the fairest of plants,I am a wild boar in valour,I am a salmon in…

The clock struck one,The mouse ran down,Dickery, dickery dock.

Ambition’s greedy maw shun,And tread the path of innocence!Dread crooked ways and cheating,And be not like those hounds of Hell,Like prowling wolves awaiting,Which once upon my footsteps fell.An allalu mo wauleen,My little bag I treasured it;’Twas stuffed from string to sauleen,A thousand times I measured it!Should you ever reach Dungarvan,That wretched hole of dole and…

You couldn’t push a brumby fifty mileAnd drop him in a boiler-shed to cool.I’ll sling you through six counties in a day.I’ll hike you up a grade of one in ten.I am Duty, Law and Order under way,I’m the Mentor of banana-fingered men!I will make you I know your left hand from your right.I will…

It’s all about a young man, and I’m going to tell you now,How he lately came a-courting of the Maid of the Sweet Brown Knowe.Said he, “My pretty fair maid, will you come along with me,We’ll both go off together, and married we will be;We’ll join our hands in wedlock bands, I’m speaking to you…

And if the bowl had been stronger,My song had been longer.

Little Tom Tinker’s dog,Bow, wow, wow.

Yes, marry have I,Three bags full;One for my master,One for my dame,But none for the little boyWho cries in the lane.

While going the road to sweet Athy,Hurroo! hurroo!While going the road to sweet Athy,A stick in my hand and a drop in my eye,A doleful damsel I heard cry:“Och, Johnny, I hardly knew ye!“With drums and guns, and guns and drums,The enemy nearly slew ye;My darling dear, you look so queer,Och, Johnny, I hardly knew…