School: Knocknagilla
- Location:
- Knocknagillagh, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: T. Gilchrist
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0980, Page 015
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- (continued from previous page)Then someone roared out the password saying,
"Lads what will we do."
For he'll take our lives, our fifes, and drums this night by the Foggy Dew.v1
The good example then was set, and the lads took up the run,
And, in all your life, if you lived twice, you never saw such fun.
For to see one man chasing a band as over the hills they flew
I'm sure Sinn Fein you made a name that day by the Foggy Dew.v11
Now drink a health to the Moher boys, when you your glasses drain,
They'll keep Molly's sons where they belong and likewise defend Shinn Fein
I'll wash my hands out of their bands, but I'll tell them what they'll
do,
Never come that way, for to taunt Shinn Fein or march by the Foggy Dew.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Eugene Smith
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- Thomas Smith
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Cullin, Co. Cavan
