School: Mín Charraigeach (roll number 7188)
- Location:
- Meencargagh, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Caitlín Nic Ghiolla Uain
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An Old Ballad
“As I went out walking one morning in May ...”
As I went out walking
One morning in May
To view the green fields
And the meadow so gay
The blackbirds sang merrily,
Purling streams on each side,
And the boys and the girls
Sporting along the bogside.IIMy mind bent on rambling
I passed Bishop’s Grove
Where I and my true love
Oftimes did rove;
If she had been constant
I’d have been constant still,
For many a long evening
We spent around the mill. IIIMy love’s tall and handsome,
She lives ‘neath the wall;
For singing or dancing
She exceeds them all;
She gave me her hand
Saying: “Married we’ll be,
In sweet Londonderry(continues on next page)- Collector
- Maggie Kelly
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Meencrumlin, Co. Donegal
- Informant
- Mrs Margaret Kelly
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 38
- Address
- Meencrumlin, Co. Donegal