The Old Bog Road: Brayton
My feet are on Broadway This blessed morn, But oh! the ache thats in my For the where I was born. My weary are blistered Through in cold and heat! And oh! to a scythe once more a field of Irish wheat. Had I the to wander back, Or own a abode. Id sooner see the hawthorn By the Old Bog Road.
I was young and restless My was ill at ease, dreaming of America, And the beyond the seas. Oh, sorrow rake money, Tis hard to the same, And the world to any man If no one his name. Ive had my day and I am A-building per load. A long three miles away the Old Bog Road.
My mother died springtime, Erins fields were green. The neighbours her waking Was the ever seen. There were and primroses Piled above her bed, And Church was crowded When her Mass was read. And here was I on A-building per load. When carried out her coffin the old Bog Road.
There was a girl at home Who used to walk me. Her eyes were and sorrowful Like oer the sea. Her was Mary Dwyer, But that was ago. The ways of God are Than the things that man know. She the day I left her, A-building per load, Id forget the days Ive spent On the old Bog Road.
Ah! Lifes a puzzle, finding out by man, Ill the day for what its worth 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. human heart must bear its grief Though be the bode So God be you, Ireland, And the Old Bog Road.