School: Sráid an Mhuilinn (B.) (roll number 14350)
- Location:
- Millstreet, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Seán Ó Céilleachair
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- (continued from previous page)The train, it stopped to their surprise
And a volley soon rang out
"Put up your hands, your guns we want"
It was our "boys" that shout.
The Officer he being a coward
He thought it best to run
For he knew there was a sniper there
With a double-barrelled gunThe Officer, he being a coward
He surely got a ball
And by the papers you will see
His name was John Borchall
The soldiers then surrendered
And marched out of the train
And handed up their rifles to the
Leaders of Sinn Fein.And while the firing lasted
'Twas heard in Millstreet town
But the Kaiser and his Black and Tans
Were afraid to venture down
But if they came, 'twas all the same
A worse fate they would meet
They would ne'er again see the barracks
Nor the town of sweet Millstreet(continues on next page)
