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'I KNOW where I'd get	A
An ass that would do	B
If I had the money	C
A pound or two '	D
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Said a ragged man	E
To my uncle one day	F
He got the money	C
And went on his way	F
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And after that time	G
In market or fair	H
I'd look at the asses	I
That might be there	H
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And wonder what kind	J
Of an ass would do	B
For a ragged man	E
With a pound or two	B
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O the black and roan horses the street would fill	K
Their manes and tails streaming and they standing still	K
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And their owners the men of estate would be there	H
Refusing gold guineas for a colt or a mare	H
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And one maybe riding up and down like a squire	L
So that buyers from Dublin might see and admire	L
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The hunter or racer come to be sold	M
And be willing and ready to pay out their gold	M
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With men slouching beside them and buyers not near	N
It's no wonder the asses held down head and ear	O
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They had been sold or in by ways bought	P
For a few half crowns tied up in a knot	P
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And no one so poor as to buy one might come	Q
To that fair that had horses so well prized at home	R
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And then it fell out	S
That at Arva or Scrabbey	T
At some down county fair	H
Or Mohill or Abbey	T
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On two asses I happened	U
Without duress or dole	V
They were there in the market	W
A dam and her foal	V
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And the owner a woman	X
Did not slouch or stand	Y
But in her cart sitting	Z
Was as grand as the grand	Y
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Like a queen out of Connacht	Y
From her toe to her tip	A2
Like proud Crania Uaile	V
On the deck of her ship	A2
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And her hair 'twas a mane	B2
The blackberries growing	Z
Out of the hedge rows	C2
Have the sheen it was showing	Z
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There kind was with kind	Y
Like the flowers in the grasses	I
If the owner was fine	D2
As fine were her asses	I
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White white was the mother	E2
As a dusty white road	Y
Black on back and on shoulders	F2
The cross marking showed	Y
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She was tall she could carry	T
A youth stout of limb	G2
Or bear down from her mountain	X
The bride decked for him	G2
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Such was the mother	E2
The foal's hide was brown	H2
All fleecy and curly	T
And soft like bog down	H2
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And it nuzzled its mother	E2
Its head to her knee	T
And blue were its eyes	I2
Like the pools of the sea	T
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Then I thought all the silver	E2
My uncle could draw	J2
Might not pay for the creatures	F2
That that day I saw	J2
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And I thought that old Damer	E2
Who had troughs made of gold	Y
Could not pay for the asses	I
The young and the old	Y
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And I think of them still	V
When I see on the roads	K2
Asses unyoked	Y
And asses with loads	K2
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One running and trotting	Z
With harness loose	L2
And a man striking and hitting	Z
Where his stick has use	L2
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And one with a hide	Y
Like a patched on sack	M2
And two creels of turf	N2
Upon its back	M2
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And one in the market	Y
Meek and brown	H2
Its head to the cart shafts	O2
That are down	H2
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Eating its forage	P2
A wisp of hay	F
In the dust of the highway	F
Munching away	F
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Unmarked in the market	Y
As might be a mouse	Q2
Behind a low stool	V
In a quiet house	Q2
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Then I think of the pair	H
Horses might not surpass	R2
The dam and her foal	V
The white ass and brown ass	R2

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