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Volume: CBÉ 0190

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1936
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The Main Manuscript Collection, Volume 0190, Page 265

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The Main Manuscript Collection, Volume 0190, Page 265

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  1. Lonely Banna Strand

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    'Twas on Good Friday morning all in the month of May
    A German ship was signalling beyond there in the bay
    We've twenty thousand rifles
    All ready for to land
    No answering signal came to them
    from lonely Banna Strand.
    II
    "No signalling answer from our shore"
    Sir Roger sadly said
    No comrades here to welcome me alas they must be dead
    But I must do my duty and so I mean to land
    And in a boat he pulled away for lonely Banna Strand
    III
    A motor car was flying through the early morning gloom
    A sudden crash and in the stream
    (continues on next page)
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Date
    13 May 1936
    Item type
    Lore
    Writing mode
    Handwritten
    Writing script
    Roman script
    Informant