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Thread #55458 Message #861556
Posted By: Wolfgang
08-Jan-03 - 11:18 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Add: West Rutland Marble Bawn
Subject: Lyr Add: WEST RUTLAND MARBLE BAWN (James Kearny)
This song from Dan Milner's CD 'Irish in America' is one of the few songs from that CD that is not in Mudcat yet. I've stumbled upon it in a search (http://www.marcogiunco.com/Testi/001861_08.htm) and here's the result of a copy and paste job. (I haven't checked, but I hope it is the same song)
Wolfgang
WEST RUTLAND MARBLE BAWN (James Kearny)
Come all you good people and attend for a while To a story I will unfold The truth I'll tell, you know full well As I have plainly told A dollar a day, it will be your pay Go to work at the earliest dawn It's a weary life to be pleasing a wife And chipping the marble bawn
When I came to your state, 'twas very late 'Bout 9 in the afternoon The night being dark and me being strange I knew not where to roam I boarded a train, to West Rutland I came Where the steam mill is always sawing The beautiful stone, the like never was known They call it the marble bawn
The Irish boys that fear no noise Will stand on the rocks so brave The sound of the drill will be never still But echoing always in your ears They'll stand in line like the wild geese flying And they'll never be scolding or jawing They're the very best boys that ever wore frays For chipping the marble bawn
Now when you're dead and in your grave With a stone at your head and feet Your parents will lament and be discontent And bitterly mourn and weep Will be your doom to lie 'neath in your tomb With a cross so bravely drawn Your name enrolled and prayers for your soul Engraven on the marble bawn
My song I'll end, success to each friend That ere left the shamrock shore May you live in peace with the Yankee race And by each other be dearly adored We are free in the land of liberty No tyranny for us will be drawn We'll sit at ease and sing the praise Of West Rutland marble bawn