School: Doire Ó gCuanaigh (roll number 8991)
- Location:
- Derrygoony, Co. Monaghan
- Teacher: L. Mac Áinlighe
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0940, Page 192
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Song (continued)
“It would take a tear from the”
(continued from previous page)right, and there and then upon the road
He channelts Grant to fight
But a low down coward as he was
He knew that he would fall
He said he would have the Latton boys there back against the wall
The case was brought to Ballyboy before the sacks and laws
They tried to convert them
Underneath the lions paw.
IV
They have a clever conciler, who tried to set them free
His name was Gemmy Lardna (Lardner) the northern empce
But never the less I'm sorry
His words were of no avail
They got a sentence of six weeks
in a dreary Armagh jail
V
Now thank God they they are home
A welcome them we'd give
There these noble men of Latton
may come to be spared a time
To fight their cause against(continues on next page)