School: Lisnagirl (1)
- Location:
- Lismagiril, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: Harriett Kinkade
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Her heart it was broken she died in despair,
And she sometimes went frantic and tearing her hair,
All for a young Lord that led her astray.
Far away from her friends and sweet Valentine's Brae.
- I
My parents reared me tenderly though we were all alone,
Until I took a notion to leave my native homeI rambled round in splendour and I sported night and day,
Until I became a navy on the Western Railway.
II
We had a walking Ganger, and his name was William Green,
He was as false a young man, as ever my eyes had seen.
He charged me 4/8, now mark the words I say,
For a barrow I had broken on the Western Railway.
III
I was filled with wrath and anger, as you shall understand
And for to take his precious life, already I had planned.
I fixed it on my precious mind it was an awful day,
I prepared to kill the Ganger in the Western Railway.(continues on next page)
