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customers, an
old gentleman
and a young guy
who is there
with his
girlfriend sing
without music.
...His tongue would charm
the hinges
Off the gates of hell.
…And the song
that he was singing
Would lure lark
from the sky.
The Ballad of the Tinker’s Wife
By Sigerson Cliford
(1913 – 1985)
One song the old fellow sings is about winning the Irish
Sweepstakes but it is a dream. The other is about working for a
man who has a rooster, a donkey, a dog and an old mother and
how as each died he “salted” them down and ate them. From
there the song went on to describe how he trips in the yard one
day and here comes the man with the salt. He gets up and
didn’t stop running till he gets to the next county and we didn’t
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