My Home in Fermoy

DESCRIPTION: The singer recalls "those bright golden hours I spent long ago in my home in Fermoy" "far away o'er the wide spreading ocean": school, the Blackwater, Castlehyde, and the Angelus bells. He hopes to return but knows that many he left behind have died.
AUTHOR: Kate Dowling (source: OCanainn-SongsOfCork)
EARLIEST DATE: 1913 (according to OCanainn-SongsOfCork)
KEYWORDS: home travel return Ireland nonballad
FOUND IN: Ireland
REFERENCES (1 citation):
OCanainn-SongsOfCork, pp. 104-105, "My Home in Fermoy" (1 text, 1 tune)
File: OCan104

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