The Old Bog Road: Brayton
My feet are on Broadway blessed harvest morn, But oh! the ache thats in my For the where I was born. My weary hands are Through work in and heat! And oh! to swing a scythe once Through a 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 young and My was ill at ease, Through 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 away the Old Bog Road.
My died last springtime, Erins fields were green. The neighbours her waking Was the ever seen. There were and primroses Piled above her bed, And Ferns was crowded When her funeral 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 to walk with me. Her were soft and sorrowful Like oer the sea. Her name was Dwyer, But was long ago. The of God are wiser Than the things that man know. She the day I left 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 its worth And do the I can. no one cares a rush for me What need is to moan, Ill go my way and my pay And my pipe alone. Each human heart must its grief Though be the bode So God be you, Ireland, And the Old Bog Road.