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15 Jul 04 - 08:46 AM (#1226008) Subject: Lyr Add: RIVERSTOWN VINTAGE DAY From: GUEST,weerover Another from "Songs of Sligo" (please correct place names where appropriate): RIVERSTOWN VINTAGE DAY In the county of Sligo, the land of Queen Maeve With her fine lakes and valleys and the famed Yeats' grave But come with me now to a place of renown To a picturesque village they call Riverstown For beautiful scenery, sure you couldn't want more From Heapstown to Highwood and Ballindoon shore Where lovely Lough Arrow lies tranquil and still And there's sweet Ballyrush and back down Cooper's Hill Then it's down to Poola where we first went to school And we played in the fields where the buttercups grew But we soon spread our wings and we went on our way But we'll all meet again at the old Vintage Day There's be combines and ploughs, steam engines and thrashers Boxty and crubeens and NCF rashers So to Riverstown fair we'll be making our way And we'll all meet again at the old vintage day Every farmer in Ireland will be leaving the land He'll be heading for Riverstown, dudeen in hand There'll be wheeling and dealing and yarns to tell And you'll sample the brown bread and the porter as well With the TVO tractors, penny-farthings and ploughs And the horse-drawn mower that you'll never see now Oh, the corncrake is gone, but I dream of her still Singing out o'er the sound of the old thrashing mill There's be combines and ploughs, steam engines and thrashers Boxty and crubeens and NCF rashers So to Riverstown fair we'll be making our way And we'll all meet again at the old vintage day There's be combines and ploughs, steam engines and thrashers Boxty and crubeens and NCF rashers So to Riverstown fair we'll be making our way And we'll all meet again at the old vintage day Yes, we'll all meet again at the old vintage day wr. |