Follom Brown-Red, The

DESCRIPTION: "Oh it's of a noted brown-red cock in Follom he did walk." Tom Kelly takes his cock to Lurgan to fight. It wins. The owners and trainers are named.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1973 (Morton/Maguire-ComeDayGoDayGodSendSunday)
KEYWORDS: fight gambling moniker chickens
FOUND IN: Ireland
REFERENCES (1 citation):
Morton/Maguire-ComeDayGoDayGodSendSunday 11, pp. 25-26,104,159-160, "The Follom Brown-Red" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #2922
CROSS-REFERENCES:
cf. "The Cock-Fight" (theme)
cf. "The Kildallan Brown Red" (theme)
File: MoMa011

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