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The Auld Triangle
Traditional
A famous Irish folk ballad about life in Dublin's Mountjoy Jail.
LYRICS
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CHORUS
And the auld triangle, went jingle jangle
All along the banks of the Royal Canal
A hungry feeling, came o'er me stealing
All the mice were squealing in my prison cell
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To begin the mornin', the screw was bawling
"Get up ya bowsie! and clean up your cell!"
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The lags were sleeping, as the tom was peeping
As I lay there weeping for my girl Sal
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Up in the female prison, there are seventy five women
And among them, I wish I did dwell
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