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1. Caoch the Piper by John Keegan

   

   Roinn Roinn Postáil

   One Winter's day, long long ago,
   When I was a little fellow,
   A piper wandered to our door,
   Grey headed, blind, and yellow,
   And oh! how glad was my young heart,
   Though earth and sky look'd dreary
   To see the stranger and his dog
   Poor "Pinch" and Coach O'Leary

   
   (II)

   And when he stowed away his "bag",
   Cross-barr'd with green and yellow,
   I thought and said, "In Ireland's ground
   There is not so fine a fellow,"
   And Fineen Burke and Shane Magee,
   And Eily, Kate and Mary,
   Rushed in with panting haste to "see",
   And "welcome" Coach O'Leary".

   
   (III)

   Oh! God be with those happy times,
   Oh! God be with my childhood,
   When I bare-footed roamed all day,
   Bird-nesting in the wild wood,

   (leanann ar an chéad leathanach eile)

   

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

   Stair Athraigh

   Teanga

   Béarla

   Bailitheoir

   Peter Phelan

   Inscne

   Fireann

   Faisnéiseoir

   William Kelly

   Inscne

   Fireann

   Seoladh

   Mountrath, Co. Laois