School: St Theresa's, Coachford (roll number 14022)
- Location:
- Clontead More, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Timothy Forde
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0345, Page 228
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“One Sunday evening lately as I strolled from Coachford Station...”
(continued from previous page)T'is hard for you be happy when your clothes they are so shabby
And the money that would buy them you have left it down your throat
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My mind it is much easier than the great old German Kaiser
Who is guarded by an army as he walks along the road
Both night and day he's guarded fro the shells of the anarchist
His crown it is a burden and its millions are a load
Your kids at home are bawling for bread aloud are calling
While the money you have spent today would buy a bag of coal
Perhaps your wife is crying in that humble bed she is lying
While you are a drunken vagabond who sings about the road.
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Kind sir, you are mistaken with the views that you have taken
My children feel no hunger no nor the pinch of cold
No wife I never married her, no love I(continues on next page)
- Collector
- John Lyons
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Clontead More, Co. Cork