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School: Carrigbyrne (roll number 4479)

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Carrickbyrne, Co. Wexford
Teacher:
Máire Cuirtéis
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    “Farewell, old Raheen I'm going to leave you, Where I spent many a pleasant day”

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    Composed by Michael Redmond, Raheen, Adamstown, Enniscorthy, Co. Wexford, Barony of Bantry about 60 years ago on his third but unsuccessful attempt to emigrate to America. He died in 1901 aged 80 yrs.
    Farewell old Raheen I’m going to leave you
    Where I spent many a pleasant day
    In my young days when I knew no sorrow
    No pain or sorrow did my mind dismay
    II
    I’m going to leave you and cross the ocean
    To seek promotion on a foreign shore
    Had my parents lived id have never wandered
    Or never dreamt then of leaving home
    But now they’re gone I’ve none to comfort
    (continues on next page)
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
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        1. folk poetry (~9,504)
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