School: Mastersons (roll number 8390)
- Location:
- Manorhamilton, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Gobnait de Búit
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0197, Page 228
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- In South Leitrim about sixty years ago the following songs of which I can only remember fragments were sung by the elderly people at all the marriages and wakes in the district - They were also sung by the ballad singers on the streets of Mohill on fair or market days.Good bye Johnny dear, and
When you're far away,
Do not forget ould Ireland
For a land across the "say:" (sea)
Write a letcher now and thin
And send us all you can
And don't forget where'er you roam,
That you're an Irishman.We sailed away from Queenstown,
I mean the Cove of Cork
We had a pleasant passage and
We landed in New York
I had plenty of friends to meet me there,
And work I got next day,
I cold hear my mother say,
Chorus
Good bye Johnny dear ek.(continues on next page)
