School: Cros Chonaill (roll number 8288)
- Location:
- Crossconnell, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Raghnall Ó Dochartaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1121, Page 349
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- 1st Verse
You may aid me with consolation,
Assist my Jean you, till I explain
To sing the praise of a sort of seamen;
That went a ' fishing in the harvest-time;
2nd VerseOne morning early as day was breaking,
This crew and Dennis they did prepare
To main the Fanag in Port a Teanmhala
Those gallant seamen they had gone their
To breast the breeze fresh across the sea;
A silly deed unto unsnare
The breeze came on a little fresher
From the Northway it chanced to blow;
When Peter John from his seat he started,
On the weather bow he began to row;
Johnny lanced out another oar,
And the two were pulling on the weather side,
When Johnny cried out, sine mile murder -
Our bodies soon, will lie in the tide.
3rd VerseThe Fanag flew like an old canoe(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Annie O Donnell
- Gender
- Female
