The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #91364   Message #1737984
Posted By: mrsmac
11-May-06 - 09:58 AM
Thread Name: Songs about loss of pay, low wages
Subject: RE: Loss of pay
this verse is from the shamrock shore

Our sustenance is taken away
Our tithes and taxes for to pay
To support that law-protected church to which they do adhere
And our Irish gentry, well you know
To other countries they do go
And the money from all Ireland is squandered here and there
But if those squires would stay at home
And not to other countries roam
But to build mills and factories here to employ the labouring core
For if we had trade and commerce fair
To me no nation could compare
To that sore oppressed island that they call the Shamrock Shore