The Old Bog Road: Teresa
My feet are here on This harvest morn, But oh! the ache in my heart For the where I was born. My hands are blistered work in cold and heat! And oh! to swing a scythe more Through a of Irish wheat. Had I the to wander back, Or own a abode. Id see the hawthorn tree By the Old Bog Road.
When I was and restless My was ill at ease, Through of America, And the gold 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 away the Old Bog Road.
My mother last springtime, When fields were green. The said her waking Was the ever seen. were snowdrops and primroses Piled high her bed, And Church was crowded When her Mass was read. And here was I on bricks per load. When they carried out her the old Bog Road.
There was a girl at home Who to walk with me. Her eyes soft and sorrowful moonlight oer the sea. Her name was Dwyer, But was long ago. The ways of God are the things that man might know. She the day I left her, bricks per load, Id forget the days Ive spent On the old Bog Road.
Ah! Lifes a puzzle, finding out by man, Ill take the day for what its And do the I can. Since no one a rush for me need is there to moan, Ill go my way and my pay And smoke my alone. Each heart must bear its grief Though be the bode So God be you, Ireland, And the Old Bog Road.