School: Mainistir Ó dTórna
- Location:
- Abbeydorney, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Mícheál Ó Ríoghbhardáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0413, Page 147
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- Tis twenty years ago to-day I grasped my mother's hand
She kissed and blessed her own dear boy going to a foreign land,
The neighbours tore me from her breast and told her I should go
And on their taking her away those words fell faint and low.
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Chorus.
"Goodbye Johnny dear, and when your far away
Don't forget your old mother far across the "say",
Write a letter now and then and send her all you can,
But don't forget where'er you roam that you're an Irishman.(continues on next page)
