Rattlin' Bog

Informant/Performer: Source:
Clancy children So Early In the Morning
Carrick-on-Suir, Tipperary, Ireland, 1950s Tradition Records TR 1034
Collected by Diane Hamilton

Chorus


O - ro, the rat - tlin' bog, and the bog down in the val - ley - o,

O - ro the rat - tlin' bog, and the bog down in the val - ley o,

1. And in that bog there was a tree, A rare tree, and a rat - tlin' tree,
*

1. Tree in the bog and the bog down in the val - ley - o.
2. Bough on the tree and the tree in the bog and the
Transcribed by Gail Needleman
* this motive repeated as necessary for successive verses

2. And on that tree there was a bough,

A rare bough and a rattlin' bough,
Bough on the tree and the tree in the bog
And the bog down in the valley-o.
(Chorus)

3. And on that bough there was a branch...

(Chorus)

4. And on that branch there was a nest...

(Chorus)

5. And on that nest there was a bird...

(Chorus)

6. And on that bird there was a tail...

(Chorus)

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