School: Garrdha na Cailce (Garnakilla) (roll number 15418)
- Location:
- Garranakilka, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Séamus Ó Riain
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0543, Page 119
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- (continued from previous page)for stooping blood. A dockleave cures a sting of a nettle. Buacailldauns grow in dry land.
A Song (continued)
“The poor I am today God gave and took away without a home to night poor Dan O' Hara.”
(continued from previous page)The poor I am today God gave and took away
Without a home to night poor Dan O' Hara.
With three matches in my hand in the frost and snow I stand
for to beg a bit of bread I want to-morrow
Chorus
Then a cois la gal mo croide wont you buy a box from me
A box from poor old Dan from cona mara
I will sell them cheap and low,
Buy a box before you go from the poor old farmer Dan O'Hara
II
Once I had a farm the finest land you ere did see
The finest land you ever ran a plough through
But the landlord dont you know, Oh he left us poor and low,
And here I am tonight and broken harted.
Chorus III
In the year of sixty four misfortune crossed my door
I and my wife then we parted(continues on next page)