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County Cavan Ireland

Ballads - Poetry

Here's a Health to Sweet Erin
D. Ryan

Here's a health to sweet Erin!
When roaming afar,
She shines in her beauty,
My soul's guiding star,
Oh, 'tis long since the green hills
Of Cavan I saw;
Erin! Savourneen,
Slan leat go bragh

Chorus
Here's a health to sweet Erin!
When roaming afar,
She shines in her beauty,
My soul's guiding star.

Here's a health to old friendships,
And tiems full of joy,
To the home and the hearth,
Of my heart when a boy.
'Mid the wreck of my hopes,
Nature still keeps her law;
Matair, Savourneen,
Slan leat go bragh!

Chorus

Oh the land of the Shamrock
And harp has a spell
For this lone heart of mine,
That no language can tell!
Oh, 'tis long since the green hills
Of Cavan I saw;
Erin! Savourneen,
Slan leat go bragh

Chorus

See Also : The Lamentation of Hugh Reynolds

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