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   “Down in Galway city, the city of note + fame ...”

   

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   5.
   Oh now he's gone to America
   And now I am undone
   He is gone to join the army
   To follow the fife & drum
   6.
   He promised he would marry me
   But now he's far away
   And the face of that bonny Galway Boy
   I will never see again
   7.
   Oh! now I'm on my dying bed
   And one request I crave.
   You'll take my body to Wexford,
   And lay it in a grave

   And write upon my tombstone
   For every one that passes by
   That I died broken-hearted
   For the bonny young Galway Boy

   Bridget Kenny Tureen New Inn Woodlawn Co. Galway

   Mrs. Murphy Age 68
   Tureen New Inn
   Woodlawn
   Co. Galway

   

   Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.

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   Topics

   1. genre
      1. poetry
         1. folk poetry (~9,504)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Bridget Kenny

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Tooreen, Co. Galway

   Informant

   Mrs Murphy

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Tooreen, Co. Galway