School: Cluain Cátha (roll number 2243)
- Location:
- Cloncaw, Co. Monaghan
- Teacher: P. Ó Hanluain
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Folk Song
“Early O Early by the break of day”
Early O Early by the break of day
Down by these green fields I chanced to stray
I heard a fair maid to sigh and say
The lad I love is gone far away.
He has gone and left me in grief and woe
And where to find him I do not know.
I will search these green fields and valleys low
But where to find him I do not know
If the hills were covered with frost and snow
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What voice, what voice is that I hear
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