School: Banada (B.) (roll number 14304)
- Location:
- Banada, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: Sr. Mac Dhuarcáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0173, Page 050
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A Local Song (continued)
“So now the time is coming”
(continued from previous page)and our clothes gone to the rack.
And instead of going into bed
at night we must crawl into the sack.When the harvest is done
the married men are thinking of their wives.
And every day seems as
long as a year and they're tired of their lives.
Every day seems as long as
a year its nature as a rule.
They're securing their money by
stitches in the waists of their
breeches and they're off for Liverpool.When they go to Liverpool its
these they'll take the boat.
And on the following evening(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Eóin Ó Murchadha
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Lislea, Co. Sligo