Francis Duggan Poems

Some men as they age do not grow wiser they just grow old and gray
Enlightenment from their minds by arrogance blocked away
Whilst some men in their twenties for their years are quite wise
Though to a lot of people that may come as a surprise.
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Your attitude to others is of your choice
It never does cost anything to be nice
Some spread the glow of joy in their friendly way
With their happy smile as they bid you good day
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Enjoy your life try to make the most of every day
For time on us never stops ticking away
It will not wait for you it did not wait for me
I wish I were your age again twenty three
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If there's a hell then I am doomed and for hell I am heading
For I drove my car when I was drunk from Connie Tarrant's wedding,
I drove my car when I was drunk and lived to tell the story
Though I don't find no pride in that and that won't bring me glory.
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From Meelin he came to Millstreet Town to die
For Ireland with a bullet in hie eye
And though more than eighty years since then have come and gone
The name of brave McCarthy still lives on.
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There's no such thing as gallant loser and there's no glory in defeat
And coming first is all that matter and victory is always sweet
For the winning horse and jockey there's a mighty hip hooray
And the jockey he is smiling victory has made his day.
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His bones may rest in England thousands of miles away
But the spirit of Frank Berry remains with us today
He passed on in December when England's fields were gray
And the many he befriended of him had good to say.
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He had built a massive empire from a very humble start
The money making master had proved himself a man apart
From a working class beginning he became the richest man around
But despite all his property and money he is now lying underground.
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He talks about his youth in South Australia
Raised on a farm south east of Bordertown
The happiest years of his life he remember
Were spent out on the paddocks gray to brown.
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Some people are just ignorant their souls bereft of light
On others they cast aspersions and see it as their right
On Nationality and colour to draw the racial line
Like this person not one of us and this one suits us fine.
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