DAN O'HARA

cho: Sure it's poor I am today for God gave and took away
And he left without a home poor Dan O'Hara
With these matches in my hand in the frost and snow I stand
So it's here I am today your broken hearted

In the year of sixty four I had acres by the score
And the grandest land you ever ran a plough through
But the landlord came you know and he laid our old home low
So it's here I am today your broken-hearted

For twenty years or more did misfortune cross our door
And my poor old wife and I were parted
We were scattered far and wide and our children starved and died
So it's here I am today your broken-hearted

Tho' in frost and snow I stand sure the shadow of God's hand
It lies warm about the brow of Dan O'Hara
And soon with God above I will meet the ones I love
And I'll find the joys I lost in Connemara

Alternate chorus:
Then a chushla geal mo chroidhe won't you take a box from me,
And you'll have the prayers of Dan from Connemara;
I sell them cheap you know, buy a box before you go,
From the poor old ruined farmer Dan O'Hara.


Source: "Pat Conway Presents the Very Best Irish Songs & Ballads" (Walton
Manufacturing, 1999)

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