Francis Duggan Poems

If the prime minister or the monarch were in town today
For to see them i would not go out of my way
And for to go to watch them I'd have to get paid
But without me of course there would be a parade.
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The landscape at most times it looks gray to brown
North, south, east and west of the old country town
And the cry of the fox hunting on the dark hill
Can be heard through the night when the breezes blow chill
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It cannot be never that the best people are dead
For they are now history their last words are said
So many great people are born today
And life it goes on it's always been this way,
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At their feis they have music and dancing on Laitiarain Day
In the Village of Cullen from here far away
From all over Duhallow and Sliabh Luachra and for miles around
The lovers of culture in Cullen are found.
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The odds were against him but he beat the odds
The one who was born of the lesser gods
From humble beginnings he climbed to renown
Like they say you cannot keep a good one down,
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The spirit of life is to live for as long as you can
For brief very brief indeed is our life span
And time for us it never does seem to wait
And on each one of us there is a use by date,
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The river from the lake in Kippagh through Ballydaly winds it's way
And above the field crowded with rushes the lark carols at break of day
The young birds they chirp on the hedgerows at sun rise the sun looking red
It looks like good hay making weather a warm Summer's day is ahead.
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Just the same Timmy Connors relaxed and so serene
Enjoying his eightieth birthday the wise one of Dooneen
With his wife Mary and their two grand-daughters on the Millstreet Town web site
A man with heaps of wisdom and not lacking on insight.
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With the deceased of Millstreet Parish his bones at St Mary's lay
Michael Corkery our school teacher years ago and far away
Around Coomlogane and Millstreet Town he will never more be seen
Though good memories of the man himself will remain evergreen.
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I am a lucky fellow luck's always on my side
Since so many i grew up with are in poor health or have died
I feel lucky in my friendships and the people i do know
And i am not complaining others give me a fair go
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