School: Fothar (roll number 16903)
- Location:
- Faugher, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Bláthnaid Ní Fhannghaile
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1077, Page 196
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Amhrán - Barnes Gap (continued)
“Twas a frosty night in winter time”
(continued from previous page)"No more we'll meet our lovers sweet in lonely Barnes Gap.
VI
What will we do for sweethearts true since they have gone away,
And none are nearer to us now than Creeslough or Glenveigh.
But we'll single live before as wed a dirty farmer chap.
So the curse of the five old maids on these who sent them from the Gap.
VII
Then everyone dispersed again the very way they came,
And the last sad words they uttered were we love them still the same.
Then in each glen and valley o'er hill and mountain top.
Their cries were heard to echo through the rocks of Barnes Gap.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Laetitia Coll
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Breaghy, Co. Donegal
- Informant
- Andrew Mc Intyre
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 58
- Address
- Ballymore Lower, Co. Donegal