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Thread #131315   Message #2962873
Posted By: mayomick
11-Aug-10 - 11:09 AM
Thread Name: Lyr/Origin Req: Hills of Sweet Mayo / Glens of ...
Subject: RE: Lyrics/knowledge on Hills of Sweet Mayo
My father used to sing this as the Hills of Sweet Mayo too. For him it was a civil war song .
For the second verse , last line he sang " Free State guns"
Third verse last line , "there she did spy her bolshie boy in the Hills Of Sweet Mayo"
When I was surprised about the bolshie boy bit he said that "bolshies" was what the IRA was called at the time.