Scoil: Mín Charraigeach (uimhir rolla 7188)

Ar an leathanach seo

1. The Boys in Blue

   

   Roinn Roinn Postáil

   Twas on a summer evening
   An old man bent with age
   Landed at the village
   From off that dusty stage,
   “Is this the express office?
   I came to meet our son,
   They told me that the train
   Was due at half-past one.”

   II

   “You’ve made a slight mistake, sir,
   I’d like you for to know,
   This is the express office
   And not the town depot:”
   “You do not understand me, sir,”
   With trembling lips he said,
   “He’s not coming as a passenger,
   He’s coming to us dead.”

   III

   “He joined those Boys in Blue, sir,
   And went off to the war,
   Away from his dear parents,
   Away from home so far
   He’s broken his dear mother’s heart
   And mine is broken too;
   We told him that he’d come back dead

   (leanann ar an chéad leathanach eile)

   

   Tras-scríofa ag duine dár meitheal tras-scríbhneoirí deonacha.

   Stair Athraigh

   Teanga

   Béarla

   Bailitheoir

   Kathleen Cassidy

   Inscne

   Baineann

   Seoladh

   Cruach Eoghanach, Co. Dhún na nGall

   Faisnéiseoir

   Mrs Doherty

   Inscne

   Baineann

   Aois

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   Seoladh

   Cruach Eoghanach, Co. Dhún na nGall