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Posted By: Joe Offer
09-Dec-21 - 05:41 PM
Thread Name: DTStudy: Last Night I Had a Happy Dream
Subject: RE: DTStudy: Last Night I Had a Happy Dream
Here's a Website that has a handwritten transcript of a song called "The Boys of Wexford":

THE BOYS OF WEXFORD

I
Last night I had a happy dream
Though restless I had been,
I dreamed, again, brave Irishmen
Had set old Ireland free.
And how I got excited
When the canons loud did roar.
Grá' machree I longed to see
Old Ireland free once more.

II
Cold is the heart that does not love
His own dear native land.
Her sons far off beyond the wave
Or on a foreign strand.
By land or sea where 'e'er they be
They love their native land.
Grá machree I long to see
Old Ireland free once more.

III
We'll not forgot the former year
That's dear to memory still,
The Wexford man of '98
That died on Vinegar Hill.
With Father Murphy by their side,
And the green flag waving o'er.
Grá Machree I long to see,
Old Ireland free once more.

IV
It's true we had brave Irishmen
And well the people knows
Our Liberator - Dan O'Connell
Lord Edward and Wolf Tone,
Alas! brave Robert Emmet,
Who till death would ne'er give o'er.
Grá Machree I long to see
Old Ireland free once more.

Collected by Michael Clavan, Carlanstown, County Westmeath, from his father, Peter Clavan, a 50-year-old farmer.

The date of collection is a little unclear - I think this page (click) is an indication the songs were collected by Michael from his father from January to December, 1938.