School: Baile an Londraigh (B.) (roll number 14305)
- Location:
- Ballylanders, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: Seán Ó Buachalla
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- (continued from previous page)VIII
'Twas on the old miser I looked with a frown
When the straw he brought out to make my shake-down
I wish that I never saw Galbally Town
Nor the sky over Darby O Leary.
IX
'Twas early next morning he opened my cell,
And I hit straight away for the town of Clonmel
His blankets and sheets I pitched them to hell
And likewise the old Galbally Farmer.
X
I worked in Kilcommon,I worked in Lismore,
I worked in Knockainey and Shanballamore
Nicker [?] and Pallas and Sologhead Mór
With dacent respectable farmers.
XI
I worked in Tippeary at the Rag and Rosegreen,
At the moat of Kilfeacle and bridge of Aileen
Such woeful starvation I've never yet seen
As I got from you Darby O Leary.
XII
If ever you chance for to travel to Cork
With a spade or a shovel or likewise pitchfork,
That the whirlwind may drive you across to New York
If you work for a Galbally Farmer.
