School: Clunelly (roll number 15953)
- Location:
- Tromaty, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Pádraig Ó Beirn
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1117, Page 115
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Song - Glensuilee (continued)
“Come listen a while my country men to you hear my native news.”
(continued from previous page)No more among your sickamores will I hear the blackbird sing
No more to me the blithe cookoo will welcome back the spring
No more I will plough your fertile fields a Cushla Geal Machree
To far off soil I am doomed to far away from Glensuilee.No more at balls or harvest homes my violin I will play.
No more I will dance the gay hillance no court the girls so gay
I left that treasured heart behind that was so dear to me
I will take my place when Im far off from dear od Glensuilee.
Hugh Byrne
Quigleys Pl
song was taken down from an old man named Edward, Toye, Lemacrossan quigleys Point. and he says it was sung at all the dances and nights when he was young
- Collector
- Hugh Byrne
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Quigley's Point, Co. Donegal
- Informant
- Edward Toye
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Leamacrossan, Co. Donegal