The Old Bog Road: Teresa
My are here on Broadway This harvest morn, But oh! the ache in my heart For the spot I was born. My weary hands are Through in cold and heat! And oh! to a scythe once more Through a field of wheat. Had I the to wander back, Or own a abode. Id sooner see the hawthorn By the Old Bog Road.
When I was young and My was ill at ease, Through of America, And the gold the seas. Oh, sorrow their money, Tis hard to the same, And whats the to any man If no one his name. Ive had my day and I am A-building per load. A three thousand miles away the Old Bog Road.
My died last springtime, When Erins fields green. The neighbours her waking Was the finest seen. There were snowdrops and Piled high her bed, And Ferns was crowded When her Mass was read. And was I on Broadway A-building per load. When carried out her coffin the old Bog Road.
There was a decent girl at Who to walk with me. Her eyes were and sorrowful Like oer the sea. Her was Mary Dwyer, But that was ago. The of God are wiser Than the things that man know. She died the day I her, A-building per load, Id best the days Ive spent On the old Bog Road.
Ah! Lifes a puzzle, finding out by man, Ill take the day for what its And do the I can. Since no one cares a for me What need is to moan, Ill go my way and my pay And my pipe alone. Each human heart bear its grief Though be the bode So God be you, Ireland, And the Old Bog Road.