School: Béal Átha Lúibe, Cahir (roll number 9856)
- Location:
- Ballylooby, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Mícheál Ceitinn
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- Kate - hand me down my cothamon
The wind blow cold and chill
And angry sweeps the winter's blast
across the brown bare hill
I'll want no more for Tom McGrath, no laggard shall I be
When heart and hand are needed for to set old Ireland fee.
CHorus
Some for the ashen handle blade but the rifle brown give me
And I'll away to Slievenanmon
to set old Ireland free.
II
Tis long since Andy Connor left
he must be now in Cahir
And Pand ODwyer and Shaun Maguire
will soon be reaching there
Tell Tom McGrath, my father's son
no laggard ere shall be
For now is the hour to crush their power and set olf Ireland free.(continues on next page)
