School: Béal Átha an Dá Chab
- Location:
- Ballydehob, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Síle Ní Mhathúna
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0291, Page 229
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“My love is like a little bird...”
My love is like a little bird;
That flies about from tree to tree;
And when he sees another bird,
He thinks, he thinks, no more of me,
So take away that one I hate,
And bring me back that one I love,
And when you find one kind and true;
Never change the old for the new.2
If little birds could only speak;
They would some pretty strories tell;
About true lovers when they meet;
Down in that green and shady dell;
So take away that one I hate,
And bring me back that one I love
And when you see on kind and true;
Never change the old for the new.3
Round is the ring that has no end;
And on my love I do depend,
That, that green marble stone
Would bend and break;
Before my love I would forsake;
So take away that one I hate;
And bring me back that one I love;
And when you see one kind and true;(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Minnie Sullivan
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 13
- Address
- Ballydehob, Co. Cork
- Informant
- Mrs M. Sedwards
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 84
- Occupation
- Domestic worker
- Address
- Ballydehob, Co. Cork