School: Gleann Iascaigh (roll number 16363)
- Location:
- Bellafarney, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: Bríd, Bean Uí Cheallaigh
Open data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.
On this page
- In a cosy thatched cot in my own native spot
There's a picture in fancy I trace,
Just an oldfashioned scene that will ever live green,
And that changes can never efface.
When my old father sat in his oldfashioned chair,
When the kindly old neighbours would come
There we spent the night long in story and song.
By that oldfashioned fireside at home.
Chorus
So I'll sing you a song of the days I was young,
Ere poverty forced me to room,
For in sadness I sigh for the dear days gone by,
By that oldfashioned fireside at home.
II
When we met on the floor when the day's toil was o'er,
Merry colleens and boys from the Glen,
There we spent youth's bright days in(continues on next page)- Informant
- John E. Gallagher
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Gleneasky, Co. Sligo