The drunkard and the pig, recitation

Michael Devlin (Mack), speech in English
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ITMA Reference: 544-ITMA-MP3

Creator: Michael Devlin

Contributor: Inishowen Traditional Singers' Circle

Date: January 1986

Location: The Shamrock Bar, Clonmany, Co.Donegal

Subject: Ireland: Singing in English

Language: English

Collection: Jimmy McBride Collection. Audio Cassette 42

Type: Sound

Format: MP3

Extent: 1 computer file (MP3 file, ca. 1 min.) : digital, stereo

Copyright: Performer and Inishowen Traditional Singers' Circle

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Lyrics

One evening last September as far as I remember
I was coming home as drunk as I could be
When suddenly I stumbled and in the muck I tumbled
And down beside a pig I chanced to lay.

Sure not a word was uttered as we lay there in the gutter
Til a woman passing by was heard to say
You can tell a man who boozes by the company he chooses
And the bloody pig got up and walked away.

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