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  1. A Song - Lovely Sweet  Drumgoon (continued)

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    o'er you lovely Sweet Drumgoon
    IIII
    Alas where are those comrades
    With whom I used to roam
    Some of them sleep in foreign lands
    Where no shamrocks oer them bloom
    Far from the friends they meet no more
    Rround lovely Sweet Drumgoon
    V
    My curse he said be on the laws
    That forced us for to go
    And to leave behind green Erins isle
    That land we loved sow ell
    To God above the exile prayed.
    May the blessed day dawn soon
    When freedoms sun comes beaming
    Oer you lovely Sweet Drumgoon
    IV
    So fair you well green hills and bowers
    And green land far away
    No more I hear the hunters horn
    At dawn or close of day
    But while lifes blood flows in veins
    Till death shades round my tomb
    My fondest thoughts will still fly back
    Round lonely Sweet Drumgoon.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. genre
      1. poetry
        1. folk poetry (~9,504)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Kathleen Mc Keown
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    13
    Address
    Knockbride, Co. Cavan
    Informant
    James Crosson
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    45
    Address
    Knockbride, Co. Cavan