Music and lyrics by Richie Kavanagh
Chorus
I never knew me granny, but they said she was a plucker.
Me granny taught me daddy how to be a plucker too.
Now I am a plucker an’ me brother is a another.
We’re the greatest crowd of pluckers anybody ever knew.
The nineteenth of December was a turkey pluckin’ day.
She never stopped pluckin’ only for a mug of tae.
When granny started pluckin’ there’d be feathers everywhere.
Feathers in her pedi coat n’ feathers in her hair.
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I never knew me granny but they said she was a plucker.
Me granny taught daddy how to be a plucker too.
Now I am a plucker an’ me brother is another.
We’re the greatest crowd of pluckers anybody ever knew.
There’s a plucker here in Ireland, he’s a plucker from Coothill.
In the Guinness book of records, he is unbeaten still.
I only wish me granny could have put him to the test.
‘Cos me daddy said me granny as a plucker was the best.
There was one little plucking job that granny couldn’t do.
No matter how she tried sure she didn’t have a clue.
She says she’d get the hang of it but she was outta luck.
Until the day she died me granny couldn’t pluck a duck.
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I never knew me granny but they said she was a plucker.
Me granny taught daddy how to be a plucker too.
Now I am a plucker an’ me brother is another.
We’re the greatest crowd of pluckers anybody ever knew.
She could pluck turkey cock, she could pluck a turkey hen.
I bet she could’ve even plucked the turkey on the Den.
Dustin is a divil sure he has an awful mouth.
“Go’wan now ye good thing”. ye’d often hear him shout.
Chorus
I never knew me granny but they said she was a plucker.
Me granny taught me daddy how to be a plucker too.
Now I am a plucker an’ me brother is another.
We’re the greatest crowd of pluckers anybody ever knew.
(OH) I never knew me granny but they said she was a plucker.
Me granny taught daddy how to be a plucker too.
Now I am a plucker an’ me brother is another.
We’re the greatest crowd of pluckers anybody ever knew.
“Stay wut her Johnny, Stay wut her”
About the Song,….. Me Granny Was A Plucker.
Me Granny Was A Plucker.all her life, She was a very fast plucker, Not the fastest in Ireland thought…. Vincent Pilkington plucked a turkey in one minute and 30 seconds on RTE television on November 17, 1980, Despite several attempts by others, no one has improved the Cavan man’s time in the last three decades.
The 60-year-old’s record is still detailed in the ‘Guinness World Records 2011’.