School: Mín Bán (roll number 15394)
- Location:
- Meenbane, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Seosamh Mac Coluim
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1096, Page 447
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- (continued from previous page)And sang that old song called Eírinn go Bráth.
In truth I do think I am half broken hearted
To my country and love I must get back again
For I've never been happy at all since I parted
From sweet Ballymorna and Nora Mc Shane.Oh! there's something so dear in the cot I was born in
Though the walls are of mud and the roof is but thatch.
How sweet was the song of the lark in the morning
What music in lifting rusty old latch
True I'd no money but then I'd no sorrow
My pockets were light but my heart felt no pain
And I live till the sun shines to-morrow
I'll be off to old Ireland and(continues on next page)
- Informant
- Kathleen Boyle
- Gender
- Female
