THE LAUGHING BOY    by Brendan Behan
't was on an August morning, all in the morning hours
I went to take the warming air all in the month of flowers
And there I saw a maiden and heard her mournful cry:
Oh, what will mend my broken heart? I've lost my laughing boy!

The Laughing Boy - The Brendan Behan Pig and Whistle Band     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q5VMdqoRl5c

The Laughing Boy by Brendan Behan performed by McKenna, Carroll, Rowsome     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZRyXGkqJxc
The Laughing Boy/An Buachaill Geal Gáireach, RTE Radio programme about the song    https://www.rte.ie/radio/radio1/clips/22137880/
Lyrics and recording of the poem “The Laughing Boy “ from Poets Corner     https://poetscorner.blog/2019/03/20/the-laughing-boy/


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