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1. Song - Skibbereen (continued)

   

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   sheep and cattle died.

   The rack-rents, too, alas, came due, and could not be supplied

   The landlord drove me from the cot and where born I had been

   And that's the reason why, my, boy, I left old Skibbereen.

   
   (III)

   And well I do remember boy, the year of forty-eight

   When a movement started 'mong the boys to battle against fate,

   We were hunted o'er the mountain then as traitors to the Queen,

   Because we raised fair Freedom's Flag on the hills of Skibereen.

   
   (IV)

   Oh well I do remember still that dark November day,

   When the Peelers and the Sheriff came to drive us all away.

   They set the roof a blazing then; oh! what an awful scene

   And when it fell the crash was heard all over Skibereen

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   History Edit

   Topics

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

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Pilib Mac Aonghusa

   Gender

   Male

   Occupation

   Teacher

   Address

   Mohill, Co. Leitrim