School: Araglin (C.), Cill Úird (roll number 9248)
- Location:
- Araglin, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Caitlín Ní Cheallacháin
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A Song (continued)
“If ever you were born, a preacher for to be, you were born for misfortune, in every degree”
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“I tightened up my boots, my boyo”
This song was composed by Willie Ryan of Downing, Kilworth, the morning he came out of jail:-"The Morning I Came Out of Jail."In Kilworth town of high renown,
In a place you all know well,
It was up on the top of Downing,
This young man he did dwell,
For the striking of a police-man,
In the town of sweet Fermoy,
He was forced to travel far and near,
His name for to deny.(continues on next page)