School: Baile na Martra (B.) (roll number 13647)
- Location:
- Castlemartyr, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Seán de Barra
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0396, Page 131
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“I am going away to-morrow, across the ocean blue; and mother dear it grieves me, to be parting thus from you.”
I am going away to-morrow,
Across the ocean blue;
And mother dear it grieves me,
To be parting thus from you.
Fortune has decreed it,
I alas must roam;
And bid adieu to loving friends,
To mother and to home.II
'Tis sad to leave you mother,
It nearly breaks my heart,
To think of many weary years
That you and I must part.
But please God I'll soon return
Never more to roam,
We'll live through life together,
In the dear old happy home.[-]
Miss Cunningham heard this from a man who was going to America.
- Collector
- Master P. Abernethy
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Castlemartyr, Co. Cork
- Informant
- Miss Cunningham
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 25
- Occupation
- Shop assistant
- Address
- Castlemartyr, Co. Cork