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

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1. A Local Song (continued)

   “One Sunday evening lately as, I strolled from new Tipperary...”

   

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   My first name you may see, it commences with a "P", My namesake was a noble saint, who preached to great and small. He banished all the vipers, from out this Holy Island, And he never meant that Ireland, should be ruled by Saxon laws. III My second name is Sexton, my forefathers lived in Leitrim, Where they fought the Saxon foemen, beneath the flag of green. But when Cromwell crossed our shores, he faced for Donoughmore, And now your humble servant, is living in Kileen. "You've been drinking Beamish porter, till your legs they can't support you, Your shoes are all in tatters, and your coat it is all tore. It is hard for you be happy, when your clothes they are so shabby, And the money that would buy them, you have left it down your throat". IIII "My mind it is much easier, than

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   Topics

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

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Crissie Lyons

   Gender

   Female

   Informant

   Patrick Murphy

   Gender

   Male

   Age

   c. 50

   Occupation

   Labourer

   Address

   Dromatimore, Co. Cork