School: Kiltrustan (roll number 4111)
- Location:
- Kiltrustan, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: M. Mac Tighearnáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0250, Page 033
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A Song
“Here comes a sporting Irish boy”
A Song. 23-11-1938.-
I
Here comes a sporting Irish boy
In the sweet month of May.
To meet his darling Liza, although she is turned grey.
Across the bogs in frost and snow and wet with summers dew.
The both being old and mad for fun
But don't know what to do.
He meets her in the garden each evening afternoon and
It is there they will sit and chat awhile,
And watch the silvery moon.
it is there they will sit and chat awhile and their love tales they will tell.
Till Cupids dart will make them part from beside Pat Neary's Well.
He boasts he is a carpenter, but he cannot make a stool,
For he has got no saw or hatchet or hasn't got a rule.
He is a great mechanic he can put a handle in a spade
But a table or a dresser this lover never made.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Bridget Murphy
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Grange, Co. Roscommon