School: Balrath (1) (roll number 9770)
- Location:
- Balrath, Co. Westmeath
- Teacher: C. Ní Pharthaláin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0719, Page 297
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Song (continued)
“Good peasant, we are strangers here and night is gathering fast”
(continued from previous page)What can a peaceful labourer say,
Or a poor toiler do?"
IV
"You're poor! Well, here's a golden, chance
To make you rich and great,
Five hundred pounds is on our heads
The gibbet is our fate.
Fly, raise the cry, and win the gold
Or some may cheat you soon
And we'll abide by the roadside
And wait the rising moon."
V
"What ails the peasant? Does he flush
At the wild greed of gold
Why seizes he the wanderers' hands?
Hark to his accents bold."
"Ho! I have a heart for you neighbours
Ay, and a hearth and home,
Ay, and a help for you neighbours,
God bless ye and prosper ye."
VI
"Come, come, out of the light of the soldiers
Come-in, 'mongst the children and all
And I'll guard you for the sake of old Ireland'
Till Connal gets a fall,
To the devil with all their good guineas."(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Patrick G. Dolan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Castletown, Co. Westmeath
- Informant
- Kate Fagan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Castletown, Co. Westmeath