School: Clochar na Trócaire, Drangan (roll number 7232)
- Location:
- Drangan, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: An tSr. M. Gráinne
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- (I)Sing us the songs our fathers sung
When Erin's sons were free,
The harp upon her banner shone -
Guard of her ministrelsy -
And chieftans sat below her bards
In rows of man and keep,
While vassals crowded lordly halls
And wassail bowls flowed deep.
(II)They sang us not the "la - di - das"
Our modern ballrooms know -
The insipid themes our courtly dames
Now lisp in gas-light glow;
They (?) no lordly vices nor
Plebian blades pass'd o'er,
But smote the one, and th'other sung
To music's richest store.(continues on next page)- Informant
- Teresa Walshe
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Magowry, Co. Tipperary