Legananny'o

One evening fair to take the air,
I chanced to go a straying'o.
As o'er the dales from (DONE-GALE)?
With gentle breath displaying'o.
With a lassie gay, I took my way,
And left my occuption'o.
With beating heart, for to escort
Onto her destination'o.

So from the west to (BALLYSTRESS)?
The --------,(?) so pretty'o.
And lingering scenes as if the beams,
Were to adorn my Kittie'o.
In (CHERRYVAUGHAN)? we took the road,
Along to (SLIEVEANISKY)'o ?
Where nimble lambs around their dams,
Were sporting gay and frisky'o.

In scattered state, my sheep did bleat,
Depart from one another'o.
And fearing they might further stray,
We tied their legs together'o.
And they still ran, we then went on,
Our journey to (LYNNDENNY'o)? (or GLENDENNY'o)?
Til time passed bye,til we drew nigh,
To a place called Legananny'o.

The hawthorn gay beguiled the way,
The hare and rabbit sportin'o.
The feathery train sang o'er the plain,
(SO FAIR/PAIR)? were sweetly courtin'o.
While ways I viewed, I understood,
And thought of natures charms'o.
That maid more fair, than all was there,
The maiden in me arms'o.

Lord bless my luck, I envied not,
The King his wide dominions'o.
For time alas, ner moved so fast,
As when on pleasures pinions'o.
Like the sea-bird brave, a crest the wave,
(FOR GUARDIAN STOP THE PEOPLING'o)?
The illumineous lamp, that guides the tramp,
When all the world is sleeping'o.

So up I went, my footsteps bent,
Towards old (SLIEVENAMANNY'o)?
And with a sigh, bid her goodbye,
My love in Legananny'o.
And coming home sure all alone,
And wrapped in meditation'o.
I thus did say that (FAIR)? makes (CARE)?
Were young mens ruination'o.

My feet being sore, I moaned the more,
Til fit was I to shank it'o.
And Kittie she, would laugh at me,
Snug wrapped up in her blanket'o.
To make me worse, the clouds did burst,
The hail fell helter-skelter'o.
And every thump it made me jump
And get to finf (OLD)? shelter'o.

At last I spied, by the wayside,
A closely spreading thorn'o.
Were down I sat to shun the wet,
Intending to stop 'til morning'o.
Not long I stayed beneath the shade,
Til I fell o'er a dozing'o.
And with the spring, the mews did wing,
And started the composing'o.

My thought (INCLUDES)? mans careers,
Since Adam fell in Eden'o.
And how that Eve could still appear,
So wiley and misleading'o.
Scared at the thought, then up I got,
And homeward bound pursuing'o.
Hard,hard I swore, that never more,
Would I go back a wooing'o.

My hand I stretched, to lift the latch,
With lots of caution taken'o.
For I much did fear, that dad might hear
And from his slumbers waken'o.
But in I got, the door I shut,
The bed was getting ready'o.
When me dad a whack, came off me back
And knocked me through my study'o.

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The brackets show the words and place names that I am not sure about. Fingers crossed that someone may have heard this song before. I recorded John and Frances Rogers singing it in my kitchen about eighteen years ago, so the tape has taken some abuse since then. John (Moulden)I will be in touch soon as I have now over one hundred songs compiled about and around Co. Down. Jackie

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