Clanbrassil Street - Rhyme?

r93kaey5p2izun

I'm trying to find a rhyme that mentions Clanbrassil Street. It's something I remember from my childhood. I think it was a rhyme rather than a song and I think it was funny. Clanbrassil Street was definitely mentioned and I'm pretty sure other Dublin locations were too.

I know this is vague but if anyone has any ideas let me know.

miamee

I wonder if it was something from Ulysses? I know Clanbrassil Street features as the home of Leopold Bloom but I have never read it so I don't know much more

Aineoil

Arlessienne, could it be this?

Cinderella

Well if yez all shut up I’ll tell yez about poor oul Cinderella

The mot what had to stay at home cos she hadn’t got a fella.

She used to do the housework for an ugly pair of sisters

And they didn’t even stamp her cards the dirty pair of twisters.

She’d no fully fashioned stockings, she’d no powder for her nose

And the only bit of glam she had was her sisters’ cast off clothes.

And when she’d go out walking sure she’d never make a click

For the fellas’d all laugh at poor aul Mary Hick.

And Cinders’d bawl her eyes out as round the house she’d go

Saying ‘Gawney girls, I’m finished I’ll end up in Portland Row’.

Then one night the ugly sisters were going to a ball

When the queen an’ all her fairies came through the kitchen wall.

She waved her wand at Cinders and near scared her of her life

And the next thing – she was all dressed up just like the Taoiseach’s wife!

She waved her magic wand again before they did disperse

And a coach all made of glass appeared, like an undertaker’s hearse,

And a tiny little coachman only half the size of Jeff

In a smashing little uniform just like the LDF.

Well Cinders stepped into the coach and went off to the ball

She caused a great sensation when she came into the hall

The centre of attraction she was, a beaut, a perfect toff.

The fellas were all delighted but the mots were all browned off.

As she moved along the ballroom she broke everybody’s heart

And the Prince said to the bodyguard ‘Eh who’s the smashing tart?’

So he asked her for the dances but she only gave him five,

The tango, waltz and foxtrot, the jitterbug and jive.

Then he asked her to the garden just to listen to the band

And wait’ll yez hear the poor aul eejit didn’t even hold her hand.

‘For’ says he ‘she wouldn’t like it she’s a real stand offish miss’,

And all the time poor Cinders was only dying for a kiss.

But he moved up closer to her and things were going well

When all at once the clock struck 12 and Cinders ran like hell

But she lost her little slipper as she flew across the room,

And she dashed along Clanbrassil street, that’s the shortcut to the Coombe.

Anyhow, the Prince, he picked the slipper up and to the guards he said

‘That bird what I was dancing with is the only one I’ll wed

So let yez go and find her yez shocking pair of dafts

She’s the wan with the Cuffe St accent and the smashing pair of shafts.

Search every joint in Dublin for the foot that fits that slipper

And bring her back to Marlborough St, I’ll be waiting in the chipper’.

So the guards set out to try the shoe on every foot in town

And what a dirty job it was it nearly got them down.

But Cinders was the only one successful in the test

And the bould ould Prince, he married her and sure yez all know the rest.

miamee

That was great, where's that from Aineoil?

Aineoil

miamee wrote: »

That was great, where's that from Aineoil?

Here's the link

http://www.aideenheslin.com/2012/10/cinderella/

r93kaey5p2izun

Thanks. I think it must be a version of that Cinderella poem. Parts of it are very familiar - Clanbrassil Street and the part about Marlborough Street and the chipper particularly but some of it is new. Can't remember why I know it though. In my head it's a rendition like something you would hear from June Rogers or the like.

Has anyone very else heard it before?