The Skillet Pot

A song about potatoes, love, and thoughts of home. Hmmm...it must be Irish. Wait a minute...it's in English!

verse 1:
Did you ever eat Colcannon, — made from lovely pickled cream,
With the flour and scallions blended — like a picture in a dream?
Did you ever make a hole on top — to hold the melting butter flake
Of the creamy flav'-ry butter — that your mother used to make?

CHORUS:
Yes 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 it the happy days — when troubles we had not
And our mothers made Colcannon — in the little skillet pot.

verse 2:
Did you ever bring potato cake — in a basket to the school,
Tucked underneath your oxter — with your book, your slate and rule,
And when teacher wasn't looking — sure a great big bite you'd take,
Of the flowery flavoured buttered — soft and sweet potato cake.

CHORUS

verse 3:
Did you ever go a-courting — as the evening sun went down,
And the moon began a-peeping — from behind the Hill o' Down,
As you wandered down the boreen — where the leprechaun was seen,
And you whispered loving phrases — to your little fair colleen.

CHORUS


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Updated on Wed, Mar 1, 2006
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