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1. Folk Songs - Pat O'Donnell (continued)

   

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   woods and valleys green
   For never more round Erin's shore o'Donnell will be seen.
   VIII.
   If I were a freeman & to live another year
   Then traitors & informers I'd make them shake with fear
   As St. Patrick drove the serpents from this saintly Irish ground
   I'd make them fly before me like a
   hare before the hound.
   IX.
   Now to finish & conclude I have no more to say
   I hear the death- bell-bells tolling now
   good Christians for me pray,
   And ask the Blessed Virgin when on
   bended knees you fall
   To pray for Pat o'Donnell from
   the County Donegal.

   

   Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.

   History Edit

   Date

   15 December 1936

   Item type

   Lore

   Language

   English

   Writing mode

   Handwritten

   Writing script

   Roman script

   Informant

   • Eilís Ní Iarfhlaithe