The Old Bog Road: Teresa
My are here on Broadway This harvest morn, But oh! the ache thats in my For the where I was born. My weary hands are work in cold and heat! And oh! to swing a once more 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 beyond the seas. Oh, sorrow their money, Tis hard to 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 died last springtime, When Erins were green. The neighbours her waking Was the ever seen. were snowdrops and primroses Piled above her bed, And Church was crowded her funeral Mass was read. And here was I on A-building per load. When they out her coffin the old Bog Road.
There was a girl at home Who used to walk me. Her eyes were and sorrowful moonlight oer the sea. Her name was Dwyer, But was long ago. The ways of God are Than the things man might know. She died the day I her, bricks per load, Id best forget the days Ive On the old Bog Road.
Ah! Lifes a puzzle, Past out by man, Ill take the day for what its 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. Each heart must bear its grief bitter be the bode So God be you, Ireland, And the Old Bog Road.