Francis Duggan Poems

Maud Baily know the tougher side of life
She was born poor and became a waster's wife
And like most of those that bear the poor soul's curse
As years advance her lot in life grow worse.
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Goodbye Patricia, goodbye to you dear
The Summer is over and Winter is here
The days they are short and the nights they are long
The rain lashes down and the wind is blowing strong.
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Lisa Trencher is in Canada in Whistler I've been told
It is her second Winter there the Winter's there are cold
But she is quite adaptable and women like her are rare
A woman of the World she could live anywhere.
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Old Annie from east Kerry her hair is silver gray
And her accent from Sliabh Luachra is still a give away
Though she left the Cork and Kerry border in the year of sixty four
When she boarded the train for Dublin at the station in Rathmore.
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I cannot empathize with the poor since I'm not in poverty
And I can only imagine how miserable life must be
For those who go to sleep hungry they live with death each day
In a fair World this would not be it would be fair to say.
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He says that he has learnt a bit from Jim his next door neighbour
That you won't become a millionaire by sweat and toil and labour
And few wealthy people started their working life working with pick and shovel
And fewer still knew childhood want and were raised in a hovel.
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In his prime Humphrey Kelleher was a hard nut to crack
A mighty Gaelic footballer and Cork's greatest fullback
A barrel chested fellow with broad shoulders and lean
He played for Cork and Millstreet and his like not since been seen.
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He told me that he was well educated and that he had been in university
And he knew a lot about poets and poetry and that he could boast of a literary degree
And that he was well versed in Chaucer and Shakespeare as well as Dante's Divine Comedy
But to tell the truth I found him rather boring five minutes talking to him seemed too long for me.
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Not one Country ought to have nuclear weapons they are a danger to Humanity
And the Planet would be better off without them at least that's how it would appear to me
And Super Power those words sound a bit scary and the World does not need a super power
Billions in money wasted on weapons of destruction whilst hundreds die of hunger every hour.
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He was quickly climbing success ladder
He wanted to reach to the top
He hissed his way up like an adder
And he never intended to drop.
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