{"id":2625,"date":"2016-04-02T11:43:06","date_gmt":"2016-04-02T11:43:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.writingsinrhyme.com\/?p=2625"},"modified":"2016-04-02T13:50:22","modified_gmt":"2016-04-02T13:50:22","slug":"willie-rimes-and-the-crock-of-gold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/willie-rimes-and-the-crock-of-gold\/","title":{"rendered":"Willie Rimes and the Crock of Gold"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2626\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2626\" style=\"width: 1268px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.writingsinrhyme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/The-Leprechaun-who-gave-Willie-Rimes-his-gold.jpg\" alt=\"The Leprechaun who gave Willie Rimes his gold\" width=\"1268\" height=\"522\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2626\" srcset=\"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/The-Leprechaun-who-gave-Willie-Rimes-his-gold.jpg 1268w, https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/The-Leprechaun-who-gave-Willie-Rimes-his-gold-300x124.jpg 300w, https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/The-Leprechaun-who-gave-Willie-Rimes-his-gold-768x316.jpg 768w, https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/The-Leprechaun-who-gave-Willie-Rimes-his-gold-1024x422.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/The-Leprechaun-who-gave-Willie-Rimes-his-gold-700x288.jpg 700w, https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/The-Leprechaun-who-gave-Willie-Rimes-his-gold-332x137.jpg 332w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1268px) 100vw, 1268px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2626\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Leprechaun who gave Willie Rimes his gold<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The morning after St Patricks Day the bould Willie awoke,<br \/>\n&#8220;Jesus Mary and Joseph&#8221; where the first words he spoke,<br \/>\nAll thoughts of St Patrick as part of a prayer for the season forgotton,<br \/>\nHis head it was thumping and he could smell something stinking rotton!<\/p>\n<p>He remembered being on the tear on the town the night before,<br \/>\nHe remembered buying poitin after closing time but little more,<br \/>\nSo he lay back on the roadside as the world was starting to spin&#8230;<br \/>\nPoor old Willie Rimes&#8230; what will we at all do with him?<\/p>\n<p>As he lay back he remembered, or was it a dream?<br \/>\nThat it was real if surreal on memory it did seem&#8230;<br \/>\nThat the night before while walking home he met a leprechaun<br \/>\nBut they dont exist! he chided himself for being a drunken amadan.<\/p>\n<p>But the memory got cleared, of the leprechaun and his gold<br \/>\nWho let him have his fill if Willie would let go his hold<br \/>\nThat he had by the jacket, his fingers round his neck<br \/>\nThe little fellow pleading for his life, the pitiful wreck!<\/p>\n<p>In time the memories came clearer: reality was like romance<br \/>\nHaving no bad of which to brag, he stuffed the coins down his pants<br \/>\nTo see if this was true he put his hand behind and rammed it down<br \/>\nBut there was no metal, if there was it was molten, smelly and brown!<\/p>\n<p>Theres a saying that a leprechains gold is gold until you awake<br \/>\nBut it turns to shit bit by bit, thats why your fill of it they allow you to take<br \/>\nNow, I dont know, but long ago such by folk was believed I know is true<br \/>\nBut with Willie I think his leprechaun gold came from drinking too much home brew!<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Glossary:<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>amadan<\/em> &#8211; fool (Ir)<br \/>\n<em>leprechaun <\/em> &#8211; an Irish fairy<br \/>\n<em>bould \/ boult <\/em> bold (Hib. En.)<br \/>\n<em poitin \/ poteen <\/em> Irish potato vodka or moonshine<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2627\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2627\" style=\"width: 619px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.writingsinrhyme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Castle-De-Burgo-in-Ballybrit-where-the-bould-Willie-said-he-found-the-crock-at-the-end-of-the-rainbow.jpg\" alt=\"Castle De Burgo in Ballybrit where the bould Willie said he found the crock at the end of the rainbow\" width=\"619\" height=\"479\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2627\" srcset=\"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Castle-De-Burgo-in-Ballybrit-where-the-bould-Willie-said-he-found-the-crock-at-the-end-of-the-rainbow.jpg 619w, https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Castle-De-Burgo-in-Ballybrit-where-the-bould-Willie-said-he-found-the-crock-at-the-end-of-the-rainbow-300x232.jpg 300w, https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Castle-De-Burgo-in-Ballybrit-where-the-bould-Willie-said-he-found-the-crock-at-the-end-of-the-rainbow-332x257.jpg 332w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 619px) 100vw, 619px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2627\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Castle De Burgo in Ballybrit where the bould Willie said he found the crock at the end of the rainbow<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Reference:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.livescience.com\/37626-leprechauns.html\">LiveScience article on Willies adversaries >>><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Leprechaun\">Wikipedia article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The morning after St Patricks Day the bould Willie awoke, &#8220;Jesus Mary and Joseph&#8221; where the first words he spoke, All thoughts of St Patrick as part of a prayer for the season forgotton, His head it was thumping and he could smell something stinking rotton! He remembered being on &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[89,2716],"tags":[2738,1709,2740,2594,2739,1270,1453,2717,318],"class_list":["post-2625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-funny-poems","category-life-and-times-of-willie-rimes","tag-crock-of-gold","tag-gold","tag-hangover","tag-leprechaun","tag-poitin","tag-poteen","tag-rainbow","tag-st-patricks-day","tag-willie-rimes","column","twocol"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7EI4f-Gl","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4446,"url":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/willie-rimes-goes-to-confession\/","url_meta":{"origin":2625,"position":0},"title":"Willie Rimes Goes to Confession","author":"Tom\u00e1s \u00d3 C\u00e1rthaigh","date":"2nd February 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"\u00a0 A legend in his own lifetime Afraid he'd go to hell The bold Willie went in to the church All his sins to the priest to tell The priest thought he had heard it all That he did by then you'd think: Its said after hearing Willies confession The\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Funny Poems&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Funny Poems","link":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/category\/funny-poems\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Willie Rimes went to confession - that wasnt going to end well...","src":"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/a\/ab\/St.leonhard-ffm-beichtstuhl001.jpg\/647px-St.leonhard-ffm-beichtstuhl001.jpg","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/a\/ab\/St.leonhard-ffm-beichtstuhl001.jpg\/647px-St.leonhard-ffm-beichtstuhl001.jpg 1x, https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/a\/ab\/St.leonhard-ffm-beichtstuhl001.jpg\/647px-St.leonhard-ffm-beichtstuhl001.jpg 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":3672,"url":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/willie-rimes-was-off-the-drink-for-lent\/","url_meta":{"origin":2625,"position":1},"title":"Willie Rimes Was Off the Drink For Lent","author":"Tom\u00e1s \u00d3 C\u00e1rthaigh","date":"16th April 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Willie Rimes gave up the drink Not forever as one would think But before in disbelief you blink It was only for Lent Sure he broke out St Patricks Day But sure every Irishman does Lent that way Sure whats one day as he himself did say As to the\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Funny Poems&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Funny Poems","link":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/category\/funny-poems\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Willie Rimes wakes up beside the Easter Bunny","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.writingsinrhyme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Willie-Rimes-wakes-up-beside-the-Easter-Bunny.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.writingsinrhyme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Willie-Rimes-wakes-up-beside-the-Easter-Bunny.jpg?resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.writingsinrhyme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Willie-Rimes-wakes-up-beside-the-Easter-Bunny.jpg?resize=525%2C300 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":2602,"url":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/willie-rimes-and-the-saint-patricks-day-parade\/","url_meta":{"origin":2625,"position":2},"title":"Willie Rimes and the Saint Patrick&#8217;s Day Parade","author":"Tom\u00e1s \u00d3 C\u00e1rthaigh","date":"17th March 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Willie Rimes was drinking the health of Saint Patrick And a show of himself he made When he decided to become the grand marshal Of the local St Patrick's Day parade. 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