School: Doire Iubhair (roll number 7194)

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1. A Local Song (continued)

   “This song was made by a man from Williamstown,”

   

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   They were tracked and traced from Galway to a house in Williamstown,
   The did not get a fighting chance they were captured while asleep,
   And the way they ill-treated them it would
   cause your blood to creep

   IIII
   They tied them both hands and feet with tonges
   the could not break,
   And they brought them on to Killaloe with a boat
   upon the lake,
   Without clergy, judge or jury on the bridge
   that night shot down,
   Their blood flowed with the Shannon and treckled
   through the town.

   IIIII
   They threw them in a lorry like lumbers in
   a heap,
   They brought them to the barrack yard where for three nights they did keep,
   They kept them closely guarded not one would they let see them,
   Not even those who reared them up from
   infincey

   VI
   With tack and perseverance on the third day
   were let go,

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   Topics

   1. genre
      1. poetry
         1. folk poetry (~9,504)

   Language

   English

   Informant

   Rody Gorman

   Gender

   Male

   Age

   44

   Address

   Derryoober West, Co. Galway