School: Lackamore, Tulach Sheasta (roll number 2428)
- Location:
- Lackamore, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Máire, Bean an Diolúnaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0540, Page 086
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- (a different version of a song already written in)I
If I were home in Lackamore,
my pen I would take and write
The thoughts that fill my bosom
in sweet Mary I delight.
Down in her fathers' garden
a bunch of violets grew
'Twas there I came to court that dame
Sweet Mary of Murroe II
Do you remember the evening,
down by that bright spring well?
We both sit down together
till dark night o'er us fell
Dark and dreary were the hours,
that hung around us two,
And ten times I kissed the ruby lips,
of sweet Mary from Murroe.III
We wandered on together till
we came to a bright spring well
'Twas there we sat together till
dark night o'er us fell
Dark and dreary were the hours
that hung around us two
Says I "I will" says she "I won't"
says Mary of Murroe.
- Collector
- Mary Murphy
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Lackamore, Co. Tipperary
