School: Ballyheerin (roll number 16279)
- Location:
- Ballyheerin, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Aodh Ó Frighil
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1090, Page 193
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Songs - Nora Bawn (continued)
“There's a glen in old Tirconaill, there's a cottage in that glen,”
(continued from previous page)“Ouch a chroidh!” She is heard saying “ but I’m lonely since you’re gone,”
“Duras the curse of emigration lefts you here my Nora Bawn.Little youths and tender maidens ponder well before you go,
Do not leave your homes in Erin - what’s beyond, you little know -
What is gold or what is silver when your health and strength are gone,
Ere you think of emigrating, ponder first on Nora Bawn.
Songs - Single Again
“When i was a single young man-”
When I was a single young man - when I was a single young man -
My pockets they tingles - with silver they jingled
When I was a single young man.I married a wife & then - I married a wife & then
I married a wife - she’s the plague of my life
And I wish I was single again;
Again and again and again,
Again and again and again
I married a wife - she’s the plague of my life(continues on next page) - Collector
- Aodh Ó Frighil
- Gender
- Male
- Occupation
- Múinteoir