School: Ínse Cloch (roll number 7101)
- Location:
- Inse Chloch, Co. Chorcaí
- Teacher: Diarmuid Ó Críodáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0284, Page 221
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A Song (continued)
“Sadly am I by the side of a mountain”
(continued from previous page)Out in the trenches where volunteers line.IV
Lonely am I by the side of a mountain
Seeking my cabin so lonely and rude.
The man who will guide me, I'll treat him to Whiskey
That was bought at O Driscolls the pub by the mill.------------------------------------------------------This song was written by a man named Jack Murphy who lived in Hollyhill, in the year nineteen seventeen. On Christmas night of that year, he was going home from Bantry, he was very intoxicated, and he lost his way on the hillside. He fell, and a man named Sandy Lannan came that way and took him home, and afterwards Murphy composed that song.
Song
“George Biggs he came from nowhere”
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