School: Cluain Taidhg (Clontead), Achadh Cóiste (roll number 14023)

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1. My Sweet Old Home in Peake (continued)

   

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   in my sweet old home in Peake.
   III
   May God be with you Mickey Lynch,
   You were a dashing man.
   For laying a bowl upon the road,
   To meet you no man can.
   Jack Forrest thought he could you play, But you ran him of his feet.
   Oh! what a sporting crowd came through,
   My sweet old home in Peake.
   IV
   There was no time to me so gay,
   As those happy days of yore,
   Oh! many a sporting dance we had,
   At the doctor's cross before.
   Where the men were ever truest,
   And the Colleens oh, so sweet.
   Sure they still, still, write me more and more,
   Of my sweet old home in Peake.
   V
   Ah, many a change has come and gone,
   Since these events took place.
   And we are few and far between,
   Like all the Irish race.
   Perhaps some day I'll come again,

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   History Edit

   Topics

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

   Language

   English

   Location

   Peake, Co. Cork

   Collector

   Georgina O' Mahony

   Gender

   Female

   Informant

   Mrs O' Mahony

   Relation

   Relative (other than parent or grandparent)

   Gender

   Female