Francis Duggan Poems

Can Westmeath win next year's all Ireland senior hurling? unlikely most would say
Though I would love to see them win if only for Sean Fay
For he takes hurling seriously and he comes from Westmeath
And he feels disappointed each time that they get beat.
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If there's a life hereafter for his soul no need to pray
As he is now in heaven forever more to stay
To help out other people he went out out of his way
And not one bad word about him those who knew of him of him say.
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Thomas Davis bard of Mallow his songs are a source of joy
They were born of natural genius and will never ever die
His songs sung the whole World over and in some Irish Club tonight
Some one sings the songs of Davis to the listeners delight.
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When I was young I heard him speak in Millstreet
You might say then his better days were gone
But to the Millstreet Fianna Fail supporters
Their hero was the man known as Big Con.
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Glenferrie on the sunday after Grand Final day
The Premiership cup has gone to Adelaide said old Joe sad to say
St Kilda gave it their best shot but they ran out of steam
And Adelaide had their measure they looked the better team.
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It's not a manly thing to weep the manly man say so
But ignorance is bliss to him he still has far to go
He still has much to learn from life before he reach the stage
When he can say I've fully grown and I have come of age.
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The poems and songs of Robert Burns are still living
And though his body died more than two hundred years ago
His spirit and his soul will live forever
You will find them where the Afton Waters flow.
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Timmy Duggan is the barber of the West End
A humorous man though in ways rather shy
He's lived in Millstreet for as long as I can remember
Since he left his old home in Lisnaboy.
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He left Ireland in nineteen fifty two
Our brother John the man I barely knew
He was the eldest of the family
And the Homeland he was never more to see.
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Why so many respect oil barons and mining magnates
Is something I could never understand
When these people only take from Mother Nature
They foul her oceans and pollute her land.
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