School: Gortnaskeagh (roll number 16321)

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1. Song

   “Once more our sanon rulers,”

   

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   Once more our Sexon rulers,
   With the emigration scheme,
   Would send us from our country,
   And her beautious lakes and streams,
   But we swear we will not go,
   From the soil of holy Ireland,
   Where the pretty little shamrock grows.
   II
   When bloody Cromble vailny stroved,
   To enticipate our race,
   The words were "Hell or Connaught,"
   And we chose the latter place,
   For today they would us perish,
   Amid Canadian frost and snow,
   Far awy from dear old Ireland,
   Where the pretty little shamroke grows.
   III
   Where the wrath of Cromwell failed,
   Shall George Travellyn win,
   Will the sons of Ireland,
   Martyrs dead consent to such a sin,
   "No no by Heaven" they tell them,
   Spencer oughto Geoge and Co.

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   History Edit

   Topics

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

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Patrick Kelly

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Gortnaskeagh, Co. Leitrim

   Informant

   J. D. O' Sullivan

   Gender

   Male