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1. A Local Song - The Farmer's Boy

   

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   A local Song - The Farmer's boy.

   The following song was composed by Mr. John Murphy, Carrigbeg, Craanford, Co. Wexford, about a poor widow's son who set out from home to seek employment.

   .1.
   The sun has set behind the hill,
   Across the dreary moor,
   When weary and lame a boy that came,
   Up to a farmer's door,
   Can you tell me, wherever there'd be,
   One that would get employed,
   To plough and sow, to reap and mow,
   And be a farmer's boy

   .2.
   My father's dead, my mother's left,
   With children five so small,
   That's the worst for my mother still,
   I'm the biggest of them all,
   Little I would labour hard,
   If I could get employed,
   To plough and sow, to reap and mow
   And be a farmer's boy.

   .3.
   If no work yea do want,
   One favour I do ask,
   Shelter me till the break of day,
   From this cold and Wintry blast

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   Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.

   History Edit

   Topics

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

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Daniel Gilbert

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Askamore, Co. Wexford

   Informant

   Miss Sarah Reddy

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Raheen, Co. Wexford