{"id":994,"date":"2010-02-01T23:12:39","date_gmt":"2010-02-01T23:12:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.writingsinrhyme.com\/?p=994"},"modified":"2014-10-30T23:15:04","modified_gmt":"2014-10-30T23:15:04","slug":"the-poor-dead-girl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/the-poor-dead-girl\/","title":{"rendered":"The Poor Dead Girl"},"content":{"rendered":"<address><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em><strong><a title=\"An Cail\u00ed\u00adn Bocht Marbh\" href=\"http:\/\/www.writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/an-cailin-bocht-marbh\/\">This is the English version of the original which is in Irish<\/a> <\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/address>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1830\" title=\"Katy French\" src=\"http:\/\/www.writingsinrhyme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Katy-French.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"241\" height=\"455\" \/>Beautiful was her face<br \/>\nAnd beautiful indeed her ass<br \/>\nLots of money in her pocket<br \/>\nAnd cocaine up her nose<br \/>\nThe people looked at her<br \/>\nYoung girl of twenty years<br \/>\nThe pictures in the paper<br \/>\nAnd on the television<br \/>\nShe was the girl who had it made<br \/>\nShe was all right<br \/>\nAnd when she died<br \/>\nThe crying for her was great.<\/p>\n<p>A couple of days before<br \/>\nIn Waterford, a couple of young men<br \/>\nAt a house party with friends<br \/>\nDancing to music, kissing girls<br \/>\nThey ate cocaine that night<br \/>\nAnd the world looked down its nose at them<br \/>\nFor they were working class, those boys<br \/>\nAnd poor, so few said of them alas alas.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe, on the morning of her birthday<br \/>\nWhen she saw the poor dead boys<br \/>\nShe said to herself alone<br \/>\n&#8220;I wont do cocaine tonight&#8221;<br \/>\nAnd when she hit the floor<br \/>\nWhen great was her illness<br \/>\nDid she say to her friends<br \/>\n&#8220;Don&#8217;t do drugs!&#8221;?<br \/>\nAnd when she looks down now<br \/>\nAt the people looking at her picture on the television<br \/>\nMaybe she&#8217;d not do the drugs<br \/>\nIf the had the chance in her hand again?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the English version of the original which is in Irish Beautiful was her face And beautiful indeed her ass Lots of money in her pocket And cocaine up her nose The people looked at her Young girl of twenty years The pictures in the paper And on the &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[55,155],"tags":[1162,1161,1165,1163,1164,332],"class_list":["post-994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-affairs-in-ireland","category-death","tag-cocaine-death","tag-katy-french","tag-media","tag-model","tag-social-standards","tag-society","column","twocol"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7EI4f-g2","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2816,"url":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/the-bright-star-of-ireland-the-jealous-queen\/","url_meta":{"origin":994,"position":0},"title":"The Bright Star of Ireland &#8211; The Jealous Queen","author":"Tom\u00e1s \u00d3 C\u00e1rthaigh","date":"19th June 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"From a folktale recorded by a Longford schoolboy who was told it by a Louthman who was travelling the area looking for work... 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