Francis Duggan Poems

Oh pity them the lost youth of Australia
They are the victims of sad circumstance
They are the children of dysfunctional parents
And in life they've never really had a chance.
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In Shannaknuck the old hill songbirds pipe all the day
And wildflowers bloom in margins by bog road through Liscreagh
And curlew in the bogland his flute like notes I hear
At once so very far away and then so very near.
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Go out and spend your money friend 'tis soon you'll have to die
So what use in piling riches up for others to enjoy
And don't have some relation say on the day they lay you low
He forgot me he left me nought the bloody so and so.
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With Mother Nature Libby lives in harmony
She loves the woodland every bush and tree
She know the birds she know them by their song
The yellow robin, butcherbird and currawong.
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He was only a small sized man at a guess five foot four
Nine stone perhaps of slender build if that then not much more
And I still have the memories from sunny Summer's day
Of watching Peter Carroll as he built a rick of hay.
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You feel the World's against you and life is so unfair
And they judge you by the way you look and the colour of your hair
And they judge you by your bank account and by the clothes you wear
And your judges are so plentiful around you everywhere.
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Banish all sad thoughts from your mind to make room for joy and laughter
For this may be the only life you'll have there may not be a
hereafter
The years go by so quickly and time we cannot borrow
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The night Philotimo won the Laurels the memory with me still
The cheers that rang in Western Road might be heard in Cockhill
And Con Kelleher was beaming this night he'd lived to see
When the son of Pride of Corrin raced to great victory.
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I've never been to the Antartic the Land of eternal snow
Where temperatures can often reach sixty degrees below
The freezing point of zero, down there it must be cold
Even colder than the Artic where men perished for gold.
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Her lover's left her and she's feeling shattered
And she acts as if her whole world's come apart
But tears of sorrow won't return him to her
And one like him not worth a heavy heart.
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