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1. A Song

   “There is a tree of liberty...”

   

   Roinn Roinn Postáil

   The following song was got by Margaret Gorman age – 13 from her mother Mrs. Gorman age – 45.

   A Song

   There is a tree of liberty
   That you may plainly see
   It is nicely decorated all over
   The white, the green, and on the top
   A red rose that soon will fade away,
   And the green will flourish over us,
   When we are dead
   And in the clay.

   Chorus
   I don’t know what’s the reason why
   The orange men hate the green.
   For many a nicer colour boys
   There never yet was seen.
   The orange and blue, and purple too,
   They all soon fade away.
   But the green shall flourish over us
   When we are dead and in the clay.

   I wish I was in Ireland
   And kneeling at the Mass.
   And in my hand a prayer book,
   And on my breast a cross.
   I would kneel before the altar
   My saviour to adore.
   I would die for my religion
   As queen Mary done before.

   Chorus as before.

   

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

   Stair Athraigh

   Topaicí

   1. seánra
      1. filíocht
         1. filíocht na ndaoine (~9,504)

   Teanga

   Béarla

   Bailitheoir

   Margaret Gorman

   Inscne

   Baineann

   Aois

   13

   Faisnéiseoir

   Mrs Gorman

   Gaol

   Tuismitheoir

   Inscne

   Baineann

   Aois

   45