Brosna Tow

[Verso 1]
 
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My dear old home in the Kerry Hills, my thoughts are still with thee 
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Although I'm in a foreign land, across the deep blue sea 
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I long to stand outside your door, and see the sun go down 
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And hear the church bells tolling o'er my native Brosna town. 
 


[Verso 2]
 
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By the old wood road I long to stroll, with it's hedge's tall and green 
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By Hannons gate I would debate, with some lovely fair coleen 
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Or to take a walk to Guines bridge, on a Sunday afternoon 
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Where oft I danced a polka set, to a fiddlers lively  tune. 
 


[Verso 3]
 
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At Carrigeens winding bends, and fancy too i see 
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The River Feale flows fast and clear, round Murphy's Elder Tree 
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Where the many a romance was discussed, from dark until the dawn 
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And where I spent many a happy hour, with my cailin bawn. 
 


[Verso 4]
 
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On Knockaclarigs famed hilltop, i long to stand once more 
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And view from shannon Airport, to the town of sweet Rathmore 
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Back to the peaks of Cuddy's Reeks, from Kilorglin on the Laune 
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From Castlemaine to Coolegraine, and home to Brosna town. 
 


[Verso 5]
 
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Now to Conclude i say farewell, to mother and Ireland too 
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I'll ne'r forget when the both of you, just faded from my view 
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But soon i will return again,and good times we'll put down 
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In that dear old home by the old wood road, 3 miles from Brosna Town, 
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In that dear old home by the old wood road, 3 miles from Brosna Town.