Luyện nghe bài hát The Bantry Girls Lament

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

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Johnny, lovely Johnny, he's sailing the main
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with other patriots, to fight the King of Spain
And the from the bawn-oag in sorrow may re-tire
The and his bellows, (may) go home and blow the fire
At and hurling matches, your likes we seldom see
you come home a-gain to us, a-storeen oag mo cree
And a cruel fate will not permit our Johnny to
His heavy loss, we Bantry girls will never cease to
We re-sign to our sad lot, and die in grief and pain
Johnny died for freedom's sake in the foreign lands of

- Gaelic are spelled phonetically
- Haggard: a yard
- Ba/no/g: a green patch of (Ireland?)
- fhomhair: harvest month
- Asto/iri/n o/g mo chroi: young treasure of my heart