Colcannon
Words and music by Seán Nolan


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Did you ever eat Colcannon made from lovely pickled cream
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With greens and scallions mingled like a picture in a dream
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Did you ever make a hole in top to hold the melting flake
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Of the creamy flavored butter that your mother used to make?

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Oh you did so you did so did he and so did I
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And the more I think about it child the nearer I'm to cry
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Oh wasn't them the happy days when troubles we knew not
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And our mothers made Colcannon in the little skillet pot

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Did you ever take potato cake in a basket to the school
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Tucked underneath arm with yo-our book your slate your rule?
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when the teacher wasn't lookin sure a great big bite you'd take
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Of the creamy flavored buttered soft and sweet potato cake

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Did you ever go a courtin as the evening sun went down
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And the moon began a-peeping from behind the Hill o'Down?
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As you wandered down the BORreen where the lephrechan was seen
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And you whispered loving phrases to your little fair colleen

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