Colcannon (or The Skillet Pot)

Did you ever eat colcannon, Made with lovely pickled cream With the greens & scallions mingled Like a picture in a dream Did you ever make a hole on top To hold the melting flake Or the creamy flavored butter That your mother used to make

[chorus:] Oh you did, so you did So did he and so did I And the more I think about it Sure the nearer I'm to cry Oh wasn't them the happy days When troubles we knew not And our mothers made colcannon In the little skillet pot

Well, did you ever take potato cake And boxty to the school Tucked underneath your oxter with Your books, your slate and rule And when teacher wasn't looking' Sure a great big bite you'd take Of the creamy flavoured soft and meltin' Sweet potato cake

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Well did you ever go a courtin' boys When the evenin' sun went down And the moon began a peepin' From behind the hill o' down And you wandered down the boreen Where the clúrachán was seen And you whispered lovin' praises to Your own dear sweet coleen

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