School: Clonoose
- Location:
- Clonoose Big, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: T. Ó Gráinne
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O rise up Willie Reilly and come along with me
For I mean to go with you and leave this country
To leave my fathers dwellings his houses and free lands
And away go Willie Reilly and his dear Colleen Bán
2.
They go by hills and mountains and by a lonesome plain
Through shady groves and valleys all dangers to refrain
But her father followed after with his well-armed band
And taken was poor Reilly and his dear Colleen Ban.
3.
It's home that she was taken and in her closet bound
Poor Reilly all in Sligo jail(continues on next page)