School: Balrath (1) (roll number 9770)
- Location:
- Balrath, Co. Westmeath
- Teacher: C. Ní Pharthaláin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0719, Page 296
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Song
“Good peasant, we are strangers here and night is gathering fast”
Good peasant, we are strangers here
And night is gathering fast,
The stars scarce glimmer in the sky
And moans the mountain blast,
Canst tell us of a place to rest
We're weried with the road
No churl the peasant used to be
With homely couch and food.
II
I cannot help myself or know
Where ye may stay or rest,
A few more hours the moon will shine
And light ye on your way.
But peasant, can you let a man
Appeal to you in vain
Here, at your very cabin door
And mid the pelting rain.
III
Here in the dark and in the night
Where one scarce sees a span,
What: close your heart, and close your door
And be an Irishman!
"No-no" - "Go on the moon will rise,
In a short hour or two.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Patrick G. Dolan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Castletown, Co. Westmeath
- Informant
- Kate Fagan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Castletown, Co. Westmeath