School: Áth na gClaidheamh (roll number 10537)

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1. Local Songs - Dog Racing (continued)

   

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   V
   Accross Glenamully and down to the glen
   Where the rushes were growing she made a safe den
   With our dogs packed together your heart they would charm
   They came to her hiding and her did alarm

   VI
   Once more through the rushes wee pussy did tear
   Each dog at full speed tried to reach the bow hare
   Old Driver was leading at a second view
   And a dog you call violet did quickly persue

   VII
   They held the hare sighted for one mile or more
   And afterwards hunted her until she was sore
   As the cry of their music grew deeper in [?]
   A silence gave a sad end to the day

   VIII
   Now to conclude and finish my song
   Here is long life to Mc Clusky and may he live long
   And bring joy to sportsmen with the cry of his horn
   And the cry of his dogs on a cold winters

   This song was composed by Henry Moorhead as a result of a hunt which took place in 1920.

   

   Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.

   History Edit

   Topics

   1. genre
      1. poetry
         1. folk poetry (~9,504)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Kathleen Marray

   Gender

   Female

   Age

   15

   Address

   Sheetrim, Co. Monaghan