School: Dunmanus, Toormore
- Location:
- Dunmanus East, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Helena Lucey
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0288, Page 134a
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Songs Composed about Places Around my District (continued)
“The Barrel Rocks:- Come all you jolly mariners give ear into my song,”
(continued from previous page)You true-bred sons of Erin's Isle
Pay attention so my song
And if youwill attention pay
I wont detain you long.
I am a true bred Irishman
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And I love that soil called Erin's Isle,
That reared an IrishmanJohn Bull my boast of battles
And victories he won.
But only for our Irish boys.
What would those lads hae done.
Our Irishmen are genuine
They are foremost in the van
I will tell you true that Waterloo
Was won by an Irishman.Their deeds on sea as well as land
They make my blood to boil
Did they not fight with Nelson
At trafalgar, on the Nile
On board the good ship Victory
When their odds were two to ten.(continues on next page)