[From Manx Ballads, 1896]

KIARK KATREENEY.  

KATHERINE'S HEN.

 

KIARK Katreeney marroo;
Gow's y kione,
As goyms ny cassyn,
As ver mayd ce fo'n thalloo.

 

KATHERINE'S hen is dead;
Take thou the head,
And I will take the feet,
And we will put her under ground.


 

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see Clague chap 2; for music see p227


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