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1. Song - In a Cosy Thatched Cot

   

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   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

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   Topics

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

   Language

   English

   Informant

   John E. Gallagher

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Gleneasky, Co. Sligo