Volume: CBÉ 0481 (Part 1)

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1. Old Song - Mary of Cappoquin (continued)

   

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   Come with the noble and the brave
   With baynots flashing in the Sun
   And by my father's holy grave
   I'll welcome you to Cappoquin

   VII
   By heaven, my heart beat high with pride
   While gazing on her glowing cheek
   I felt I proudly could have died
   And laid my life's blood at her feet
   And deep within my heart I swore
   Out country's rights shall yet be won
   And freedom's flags shall flutter oer
   The tallest spire in Cappoquin

   VIII
   We parted, and across the wave
   From home and country far I sped
   Because I would not live a slave
   Beneath proud England's haughty Red
   Because I spurned their Saxon rule
   And braved it as my sires had done
   Because I wore the Shamrock Green
   The banished me from Cappoquin

   IX
   Our Finian rifles yet shall ring
   Our Emerald banner yet shall float

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   Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.

   History Edit

   Date

   April 1938

   Item type

   Lore

   Language

   English

   Writing mode

   Handwritten

   Writing script

   Roman script

   Location

   Cappoquin, Co. Waterford

   Informant

   • Séamas de Faoite