Luyện nghe bài hát The Bantry Girls Lament

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Who plow the field now, and who will sow the corn
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Who will wash the sheep now, and keep them shorn
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The stack that's in the haggard, un-touched it may
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Johnny went a-thrashing all in the wars of Spain

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Johnny, Johnny, he's sailing o'er the main
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A-long other patriots, to fight the King of Spain
And the girls from the in sorrow may re-tire
The piper and his bellows, (may) go and blow the fire
At fairs and hurling matches, likes we seldom see
Till you come home a-gain to us, a-storeen oag mo
And a fate will not permit our Johnny to re-turn
His heavy loss, we Bantry girls will cease to mourn
We re-sign ourselves to our sad lot, and die in and pain
Johnny died for freedom's sake in the foreign lands of

- phrases are spelled phonetically
- a threshing yard
- Ba/no/g: a patch of ground (Ireland?)
- Mi/an fhomhair: harvest
- o/g mo chroi: little young treasure of my heart