Music and lyrics by Richie Kavanagh
When I was just a little lad, I used to go to school.
I’d sit down there in the seat, feeling like a fool.
The teacher toult us everything, everything we know.
She had a great big lump of a stick, that was bent into a bow.
Chorus
She’d go “Aon focal, da focal, tu focal eile, And I not know no focal at all.
She’d go “Aon focal, da focal, tu focal eile, And I not know no focal at all.
She toult us how to say, all our A.B.C.s.
She showed us how to make little men out a plasticine.
She taught us how to say our prayers, she toult us right from wrong.
The only thing about it, we didn’t go to school too long.
She taught about the history, the Battle of the Boyne.
And how to play a game with a chestnut on a twine.
She says “Open up your catechism, learn of that information.
If you don’t get it into your big thick head, you won’t get your Confirmation”.
Chorus
Well, the days we spent going to school, were the best years of our life.
Tho’ at the time we thought they were, full of trouble and strife.
Now when I’m home on holiday, I pass the old school gate.
I think a the time I spent in there, them times they surely were great.
Chorus
She’d go “Aon focal, da focal ,tu focal eile, And I not know no focal at all.
She’d go “Aon focal, da focal, tu focal eile, And I not know no focal at all.
Feiceann me, Feiceann tu, Thats The Truth says I ta you.
She’d go “Aon focal, da focal, tu focal eile.
And I not know no focal at all.
And we not know no focal at all.
The Official IRISH CHARTS 1996.
The Irish Recorded Music Association Top 30 Hits
Top 30 Singles
Title: AON FOCAL EILE
Artist: RICHIE KAVANAGH
Label: FOCAL RECORDS
Date of entry: 07.03.1996
Highest Placement: NO. 1 for 7 weeks
Weeks in the Charts: 27
Year: 1996
About the Song,…. AON FOCAL EILE
Explanation: Aon = One, Focal = Word, Eile = Other.
This is a Novelty Song, About a Little Lad in School,
Trying to Learn The IrishLanguage (Gaeilge)
Richie uses the Irish language as a basis of the song,
With words that have entirely different meanings in English,
From there meanings in there original Irish.
Richie as a Little Lad in Garryhill School.