True Friends and Relations of High and Low Stations

DESCRIPTION: "Now we're preparing for war we're declaring, I hear people say we'll have corpses this year." "the times they are awful the Irish unlawful." "this mean rotten super' that sent our five troopers to the gaol in Tralee."
AUTHOR: Sean O Tuama (Johnny Nora Aodha) (source: OCroinin/Cronin-TheSongsOfElizabethCronin)
EARLIEST DATE: 1956 (OCroinin/Cronin-TheSongsOfElizabethCronin)
KEYWORDS: war prison
FOUND IN: Ireland
REFERENCES (1 citation):
OCroinin/Cronin-TheSongsOfElizabethCronin 189, "True Friends and Relations of High and Low Stations" (1 text)
Roud #16240
NOTES [43 words]: I have no idea what's going on here. Is this about a literal war? The first World War? The Irish Civil War? - BS
I would guess (wildly) the Boer War: A lot of Irish fought it, but Ireland was not in the political ferment that preceded the First World War. - RBW
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File: OCC189

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