School: Baile Uí Bhuaig (C.) (roll number 14817)

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1. The Kilnamartyra Exile (continued)

   

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   Sorrows dark and dismal cloud never cast its shaddows over me.
   And I know of pleasure only while I stood on Irish earth.)

   Twelve long and dreamy Winters have come and have departed
   Since I sailed across the waters and bade my friends good bye
   But still this loving heart of mine is ever fondly yearning
   For the home where I was born and where I long to die

   The Friends that once delighted me in fancys dreams I still can see
   Around the cabin fire with me when our daily toil was over
   And their songs and merry voices come rushing to my memory
   From my heart I'm ever grieving that I never shall see them more

   I've travelled through Columbia all toil and danger scorning
   From the farthest eastern border far westward through the deep
   From the broad extending cotton fields to the plains of Alabama
   And the mines of lone Montana 'mid the Rockies wide and steep

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   Irish

   English

   Collector

   Neans Ní Shúilleabháin

   Gender

   Female

   Informant

   Seán de Brún

   Gender

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