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1. Local Songs - Clononough (continued)

   

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   Where the primrose grow
   And the bright waters flow
   And the thrush piping out at the dawn
   The hawthorn white oft filled with delight
   My young heart as I went to roam
   In those beautiful bowers all covered with flowers
   Of Clononagh, Clononagh my home.
   II
   The song of the thrush in the moss covered bush
   My fancy did often allure
   As I romped over brae, over gorse craig and spray
   To look for birds nests on the moor
   When then I found the wee birds on the ground
   Id watch them as a mother would do
   Again and again in sunshine and rain
   I'd see them each day till the flew
   III
   But times have now changed
   And the fields that I ranged

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   History Edit

   Topics

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

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Rita Rigney

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Glendine, Co. Offaly