Louse House in Kilkenny - Wolfe Tones {1965}

from wolfe Tones first album The Foggy Dew {1965}, fontana label.

Louse House In Kilkenny

The first of me downfall I walked out the door
I straight made me way on for Carrick-on-Suir
Going out by Kilkenny 'twas late in the night
as I went through that city I saw gaslight
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And there in this back street there was this gas lamp
And under it sat the chap called the tramp
He asked me for a penny, and to him I did say,
"could you show me a place where I could stay
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'He directed me down to Sweet Lovers Lane
To the place called the refuge, I think that's the name"
Steps' inside the door put my back to the wall
was then that I found out was the cobblers hall.
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Young man in the corner and he mending some brogue
with his hammer and chisel, going round like a goat
the old women inside, and to me she did say,
"if you gave me a shilling sir, here you can stay."
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She brought me upstairs, and she put out the light,
and in less than 5 minutes i had to show fright,
with bugs and the flies, they collected to march,
and over me belly, they formed an arch.
and one big rattier, gave me such a nip,
I was very near losing the use of me hip.
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I sat up in the bed, and demanded fair play,
sure if I had me stick, I could fight my own way
jumped out through the window, and gathered some stones,
sure if I had sore sides, I gave him broken bones.
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Now come on you fair maiden, wherever you may be,
wherever you travel, by land or by sea,
if your going to Kilkenny, and intending to stay
beware of the Louse House, in Sweet Lovers Lane.
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