School: St Egney's (C.), Buncrana
- Location:
- Buncrana, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Ellen Daly
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1112, Page 446
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“To Dunree sweet I bid adieu,”
Songs.
An old song composed by Hannah Harkin, Dunree, Buncrana in Sept 1865. She is now in New Zealand.
To Dunree sweet I bid adieu,
Your lakes and braes no more I'll view.
Your hills and dales and fields so green,
I'll never, never may view again.
2
And just beside your flashing sea,
There is a cot so dear to me,
That is the cot that gave me birth,
Where I first spent my childhood mirth.
3
In Dunree Fort I often laughed and
sported there my fill,
And watched the soldiers gleaming bayonets.
As they went through their drill.
4
But if I do not see you more,
Or stand upon sweet Dunree shore.
Where ever I am to make my home,
My thoughts will be with you at home
- Informant
- Hannah Harkin
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Dunree, Co. Donegal