School: Droichead na Daoile (roll number 14736)

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1. A Local Song

   “Goodbye into poor Sheenagh”

   

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   I.
   Good-bye unto poor Keenagh
   and the people that's therein,
   And all around the borders,
   Where the small birds sweetly sing
   Good-bye unto my comrades
   'tis for them I often feel,
   Like-wise the maids
   Lived in my days along the river Deel.

   Verse II.
   Tis well the tenant farmer knows,
   their hardest days are gone.
   The landlord's are alarmed
   since Parnell leads the van.
   If you carry light when out
   at night your imprisoned for the same
   With their high rent they are
   not content without the fish and game.

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   Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.

   History Edit

   Topics

   1. genre
      1. poetry
         1. folk poetry (~9,504)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Maura Gallagher

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Mungaun, Co. Mayo

   Informant

   James Gallagher

   Gender

   Male

   Age

   48

   Address

   Mungaun, Co. Mayo