School: Páirc an Iarla (roll number 9303)
- Location:
- Rathpeak, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Ss. Ó Maonaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0273, Page 101
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An old man gazed at a photograph,
In the locket he'd worn for years,
His nephew asked the reason why,
That picture had cost him tears,
"Come listen" he said "I will tell you my lad,
A story that is strange but true.
Your father and I at the school one day,
Met two little girls in blue.
Chorus.
Two little girls in blue, lads, two little girls in blue,
They were sisters, we have brothers, and ?? to love the two,
And one little girl in blue, lad, who won your father's heart,
Became your mother, I married the other, but now we have drifted apart.
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"That picture is one of the girls" he said,
"And to she once was a wife.
I thought her unfaithful, we quarreled, my lad,
And parted that night for life.
Nay fancy of jealousy wrong'd a heart,
A heart that was good and true,
For two better girls never liv'd than they,
Those two little girls in blue.
Chorus.(continues on next page)
- Informant
- Tom Murray
- Gender
- Male
- Occupation
- Farmer
- Address
- Rathpeak, Co. Roscommon
