School: Moyvoughley (roll number 7249)
- Location:
- Moyvoughly, Co. Westmeath
- Teacher: C. Ní Fhlannagáin
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- (continued from previous page)With Mary sweet Mary the pride of Killare.
- Sweet Ballymore (Westmeath)
Come Paddy dear. hold up your head
Let nothing enter there like dread,
For sure the cause is going ahead
In dear old Ballymore
You are in trouble, do you say
Since the Arrest of Joseph Fay
And Thomas John so good and gay
Of High Street Ballymore
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But sure, our boys will never flinch
or in the cause, ne'er loose one inch
The landlords' corns yet will pinch
around sweet Ballymore
Unto each other we'll be true
whilst o'er us floats the sky so blue
Coercion law can ne'er subdue
The men of Ballymore
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Us Leaguers all did we unite
To gain for all, just tenants’ rights
And for that cause to day we fight
Like me of Ballymore(continues on next page)
