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Thread #143730   Message #3318825
Posted By: GUEST,mg
07-Mar-12 - 03:02 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Add: Dominic Behan Farewell to Kilkenny?
Subject: Lyr Add: Dominic Behan Farewell to Kilkenny?
This is a beautiful song that someone here kindly gave me..

Here are the words I transcribed..please correct names etc. and give the correct title..I made that up...


Mad pictures of women and men walk my way
And hunted I am in the broad of the day
By the the knor of Kilkenny I sat down and I cried
For the ghost of a nation that walked by my side

On the wild falling meadow of fair Sleive Na Mon
The field mouse is master the tenant has gone
By the walls of Clon Meala I sat down and I cried
For the living and dead were as bridegroom and bride

Who emptied the village of Carrigaleen
Who laid out the body of fair Skibereen
By the stones of Cork Harbor I sat down and I cried
For the vessel of exile lay dark alongside

Fairwell Castle Comer Rathkeel and Donoor
Clonmell Carigalihan and the Black Water Shore
America holds what you never could give
We owe life and death it's our payment to live