
Date of issue: 08.12.2019
Song language: English
Old Bog Road |
My feet are here on Broadway |
This blessed harvest morn |
But oh! |
the ache that’s in my heart |
For the spot where I was born |
My weary hands are blistered |
Through work in cold and heat! |
And oh! |
to swing a scythe once more |
Through a field of Irish wheat |
Had I the chance to wander back |
Or own a king’s abode |
I’d sooner see the hawthorn tree |
By the Old Bog Road |
When I was young and restless |
My mind was ill at ease |
Through dreaming of America |
And the gold beyond the seas |
Oh, sorrow rake their money |
'Tis hard to find the same |
And what’s the world to any man |
If no one speaks his name |
I’ve had my day and here I am |
A-building bricks per load |
A long three thousand miles away |
From the Old Bog Road |
My mother died last springtime |
When Erin’s fields were green |
The neighbours said her waking |
Was the finest ever seen |
There were snowdrops and primroses |
Piled high above her bed |
And Ferns Church was crowded |
When her funeral Mass was read |
And here was I on Broadway |
A-building bricks per load |
When they carried out her coffin |
Down the old Bog Road |
There was a decent girl at home |
Who used to walk with me |
Her eyes were soft and sorrowful |
Like moonlight o’er the sea |
Her name was Mary Dwyer |
But that was long ago |
The ways of God are wiser |
Than the things that man might know |
She died the day I left her |
A-building bricks per load |
I’d best forget the days I’ve spent |
On the old Bog Road |
Ah! |
Life’s a weary puzzle |
Past finding out by man |
I’ll take the day for what it’s worth |
And do the best I can |
Since no one cares a rush for me |
What need is there to moan |
I’ll go my way and draw my pay |
And smoke my pipe alone |
Each human heart must bear its grief |
Though bitter be the 'bode |
So God be with you, Ireland |
And the Old Bog Road |
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It's A Little More Like Heaven | 2019 |
There'll Be No Teardrops Tonight | 2022 |
Send Me The Pillow That You Dream On | 2019 |
Send Me the Pillow You Dream On | 2019 |
No One Is Sweeter Than You | 2019 |
We're Gonna Go Fishin' | 2014 |
Paper Face | 2019 |
We're Goin' Fishin' | 2017 |
From Here to There to You | 2014 |
One Step Ahead Of My Past | 2019 |
Please Help Me I'm Falling | 2016 |
Blues In Advance | 2019 |
Border Of The Blues | 2019 |
Foreign Car | 2019 |
I Gotta Talk To Your Heart | 2019 |
Goin' Home All by Myself | 2017 |
14 Karat Gold | 2017 |
Livin' Alone | 2019 |