The Old Bog Teresa Brayton
My feet are on Broadway This blessed morn, But oh! the ache in my heart For the spot I was born. My weary are blistered Through in cold and heat! And oh! to swing a scythe once a field of Irish wheat. Had I the chance to back, Or own a abode. Id sooner see the hawthorn 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 rake money, Tis to find the same, And whats the to any man If no one his name. Ive had my day and I am bricks per load. A three thousand miles away the Old Bog Road.
My mother died springtime, When Erins were green. The neighbours her waking Was the finest seen. There were snowdrops and Piled above her bed, And Ferns was crowded When her Mass was read. And was I on Broadway bricks per load. When they out her coffin the old Bog Road.
There was a girl at home Who used to with me. Her were soft and sorrowful Like oer the sea. Her was Mary Dwyer, But was long ago. The of God are wiser Than the that man might know. She died the day I her, A-building per load, Id best forget the days Ive On the old Bog Road.
Ah! Lifes a puzzle, finding out by man, Ill take the day for its worth And do the I can. Since no one cares a for me What is there to moan, Ill go my way and my pay And my pipe alone. human heart must bear its grief Though bitter be the So God be you, Ireland, And the Old Bog Road.