School: Doire Thanaidhe (roll number 11204)

Location:
Doire Sheanaigh, Co. Donegal
Teacher:
M. Ní Amhalaghaidh
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  1. Amhrán

    My match is a-making since ere last night

    1. My match is a making since ere last night.
    But not to the girl that I love best.
    I'll leave all behind me and go with your.
    Down by the banks of the roses.
    11.
    Sleep till milking-time it is my heart's delight.
    A bed of green rushes under my side.
    A bottle of liquir under my head.
    And my bonnie brown girl in my arms.
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    Ere last night three hours before day.
    I wrote my love a letter but she was far away.
    The lark and the thrush and the blackbirds say.
    That my love sailed over the ocean.
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    I travelled behind and I travelled before.
    I travelled Dublin and city Athlone.
    But the like of my true-love I never saw before.
    But one brown girl and she left me.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Topics
    1. genre
      1. poetry
        1. folk poetry (~9,504)
    Language
    English