Song of the Month
SONG OF THE MONTH
OCTOBER
Dan O’Hara
Sure it’s poor I am today,
For God gave and took away,
And left without a home poor Dan O’Hara,
With these matches in my hand,
In frost and snow I stand,
So it’s here I am today your broken-hearted.
Chorus
Acushla geal mo chree,
Won’t you buy a box from me,
And you’ll have the prayers of Dan from
I’ll sell them cheap and low,
Buy a box before you go,
From the broken-hearted farmer, Dan O’Hara.
In the year of sixty-four,
I had acres by the score,
And the grandest land you ever ran a plough through,
But the landlord came, you know,
And he laid our oul’ home low,
So it’s here I am today your broken-hearted.
Chorus
For twenty years or more,
Did misfortune cross our door,
And my poor wife and I were sadly parted;
We were scattered far and wide,
And our children starved and died,
So it’s here I am today your broken-hearted.
Chorus
Tho’ in frost and snow I stand,
Sure the shadow of God’s hand,
It lies warm about the brow of Dan O’Hara;
And soon with God above,
I’ll meet the ones I love,
And I’ll find the joys I lost in
Chorus