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1. A Local Song - Boyhood Memories

   

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   This song was made by John Donaghy, Cordoo who is now dead. He composed it while in Belfast Prison in April 1921.

   Boyhood Memories
   It is now fourteen years & a month I might say
   Since I started around this old land for to stay
   To each place of historic importance Iv'e been
   From the cliffs of Fair Head unto old Skibbereen
   What a contrast this seems to those days when a boy
   When the home of my parents alone brought me joy
   When with violin & bow I would play from my store
   Of old Irish tunes when each days' work was o'er.

   Ah! those days of my youth, they now seem too few
   That I spent on that fertile old soil of Cordoo
   'Midst once loving hearts which alas! have turned cold
   And affection replaced with the lure of the gold.
   Shll for all this sad tale sure my heart often turns
   With pride every time that I see in my dreams
   Those scenes of my boyhood each meadow & hill
   And that cherished old home on the brow o' the hill.

   Oh! how well I remember each day when the peal
   Of the Angelus bell reached my ears in the field
   Sure it told me that Ellie of Carn so fair

   (leanann ar an chéad leathanach eile)

   

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   John Donaghy

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   Corduff, Co. Monaghan