School: Ballycloghan, Ardagh (roll number 9827)
- Location:
- Ballycloghan, Co. Longford
- Teacher: Mary Ledwith
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- (continued from previous page)This hawk I brought full dear
For why didn't you awaken me
When my true love was here
Its with my wings I beat master
And with my (my bells I ring
And still I cried awake master
Your true love has come and gone
Saying where are you my bonny hound
This hound I brough full dear
Saying why didnt you awaken me
when my true love was here.IV
If you sleep more in the night master
And awake more in the day
If you were awake when your true love
And she ne'er would go away
If I was awake when my true love was here
And I to have my will
Thees not a bird in the merry brown bush
But honour would eat his fill
They out bespeaks his own true love
Wherein the bush she lay
Its not for my own sweet gown of green
That I'll go singing home
But its for my own sweet maiden heart
That won ten hundred pounds(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Violet Ledwith
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Ballycloghan, Co. Longford
- Informant
- Edward York
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 78
- Address
- Barney, Co. Longford
