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Me name is Mrs. Nevilles, I live on the higher levels,
I've a store right in the house that I was born in;
And since "Commission" took a notion for to cross the briny ocean,
We must close our little store on Sunday mornin'.
With me bundle on me shoulder sure there's no one any bolder,
And I do adore the country I was born in.
"Arrah be gob," says Mrs. Hookey - "You'll be mighty, might lucky,
If you're not before Judge Brown on Monday mornin'."
There's a girl called Kate Malone whose got a small shop of her own,
And every thing she sells is really adornin'.
"And be gar," says Mrs. Whitty - "You can act so very pretty,
Leave me bologna on your doorstep Sunday mornin'."
With me bundle on me shoulder sure there's no one any bolder,
And I do adore the country I was born in.
"Arrah be gob," says Mrs. Hookey - "You'll be mighty, might lucky,
If you're not before Judge Brown on Monday mornin'."
There's a store in "Quiti Viti" which is stocked up very pretty,
With canned goods upon the shelves that is adornin';
And when Lar took up the papers he says - "Emily, look be japers!
We must close our little store on Sunday mornin'."
With me bundle on me shoulder sure there's no one any bolder,
And I do adore the country I was born in.
"Arrah be gob," says Mrs. Hookey - "You'll be mighty, might lucky,
If you're not before Judge Brown on Monday mornin'."
Published in Burke's Ballads, p.51, c.1960, compiled by John White and archived at Memorial University of Newfoundland, Libraries, Centre For Newfoundland Studies - Digitized Books collection.
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GEST notes: Japers is in Hiberno-English - also known as Irish English - the dialect of English spoken in Ireland, not a misspelling.
