The Old Bog Road: Brayton
My are here on Broadway This harvest morn, But oh! the ache in my heart For the spot I was born. My weary hands are Through in cold and heat! And oh! to swing a once more Through a of Irish wheat. Had I the to wander back, Or own a abode. Id sooner see the tree By the Old Bog Road.
When I was and restless My was ill at ease, dreaming of America, And the beyond the seas. Oh, sorrow their money, Tis hard to the same, And the world to any man If no one his name. Ive had my day and I am A-building per load. A long three thousand miles the Old Bog Road.
My died last springtime, When Erins were green. The said her waking Was the finest seen. There were and primroses Piled high her bed, And Ferns Church was her funeral Mass was read. And was I on Broadway A-building per load. When they out her coffin the old Bog Road.
There was a decent girl at Who used to walk me. Her were soft and sorrowful moonlight oer the sea. Her was Mary Dwyer, But that was ago. The of God are wiser the things that man might know. She died the day I her, A-building per load, Id best forget the Ive spent On the old Bog Road.
Ah! a weary puzzle, finding out by man, Ill take the day for what its And do the I can. Since no one cares a for me need is there to moan, Ill go my way and my pay And my pipe alone. Each human heart must bear its Though bitter be the So God be you, Ireland, And the Old Bog Road.