Hallowe'en is coming and the goose is getting fat

A Hallowe'en rhyming song from my childhood in Northern Ireland (none of your trick and treat nonsense!):

Hallowe'en is coming and the goose is getting fat

Would ye please put a penny in the auld man's hat?

If ye haven't got a penny, a ha'penny will do

If ye haven't got a ha'penny, then God bless you

And yer auld man too.

Ignore anyone telling you it's a Christmas song - not in Norn Iron it wasn't...!

Whether you can go guising or not this year for Hallowe'en, I hope you can still have a good one! 😀

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Chris

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