School: Tomghéis (roll number 9239/9277)
- Location:
- Tumgesh, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: M. Ó Casaide
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0123, Page 171
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- I will build my love a castle at the end of the town
Where lords, dukes or earls they daren't pull it down
If anybody ask me why I am living alone
I will tell them I am a stranger, far away from my home
Déanfaidh mé caislean ar ceann an bhaile móir
Cuireolus ar thíghearma is ar mairce go leór
Már fhíaruigh síad dhomsa cén fáth go bhfuil mé fe brón
Dearfaidh mé go bhfuil mé sa Ameraca ag síor-thuilleadh go deo.
When I wake in the morning with my heart full of woe
When I think of old Erin and the Co Mayo
In the midst of those strangers crying Ocon
And saying what shall become of me wherever I roam
Nuair a eirigh mé ar maidin bíonn brón orm go leór
Ag cuimhne ar Éire is ar Co Muigheó(continues on next page)
