School: Carraig an Dubhais (Craigadooish) (roll number 10360)
- Location:
- Creaghadoos, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Laura Rountree
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1106, Page 328
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- I
To the western front I journey,
From old dreams lovely home
Even sad and lone colleen yearning for him more and more,
Though the sea so great divides them
Yet it seems to hear them say
All the words she fondly muttered
All that lost and fair-well day.
Chorus
There's a little home in Ireland ready just for you
There's a Colleen through and tender smiling sweet
With eyes of blue.
By the shore she's ever waiting and watching all the while.
From the Liver, from the trenches, coming back to Erin's Isle.
II
By the fireside deep they blooded,
She will sit with wistful eyes,
Pictures she oft her fair young soldier,
Walking beneath the foreign skies,
And she'll write a tender message,(continues on next page)
- Informant
- Mrs Samuel Tinney
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Ballylennan, Co. Donegal
