The Old Bog Road: Teresa
My are here on Broadway This harvest morn, But oh! the ache in my heart For the spot I was born. My hands are blistered Through in cold and heat! And oh! to a scythe once more Through a field of wheat. Had I the chance to 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, dreaming 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 long three thousand away the Old Bog Road.
My mother died springtime, When Erins fields green. The neighbours her waking Was the ever seen. were snowdrops and primroses Piled above her bed, And Ferns Church was her funeral Mass was read. And here was I on bricks per load. When carried out her coffin the old Bog Road.
There was a decent girl at Who to walk with me. Her were soft and sorrowful moonlight oer the sea. Her name was Dwyer, But that was ago. The of God are wiser Than the things that man know. She the day I left her, bricks per load, Id best forget the Ive spent On the old Bog Road.
Ah! Lifes a puzzle, finding out by man, Ill the day for what its worth 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 smoke my alone. Each human must bear its grief Though bitter be the So God be you, Ireland, And the Old Bog Road.