A Duhallow Character

Mick Punk orMichael Murphy which was his birth name To be a well known Duhallow character his main claim to fame An amiable fellow when i was a boy As one inhis ways who spread laughter and joy A sturdily built fellow though not very tall A Duhallow chimney sweep his face black from sootfall He had fought in and survived World War One from Duhallow far away But few are left for to remember him today From Laught in Rathcoole he grew old in Millstreet Town But no monument there to honour his renown Though he had survived where many in had died Like all young Irishmen who fought in the great war one never honoured in his home countryside Asquite a character of sorts he was known best With tattooson his big arms and on his broad chest To say he was a natty dresser would be telling a lie I never did see himin a suit and a tie A generous man in his own kindly way He cleaned many people's chimneys for so little pay Though with the long deceased he does forever lay There is not one quite like he was in Duhallow today He did not have children or a partner or wife And in the Town of Millstreet he spent his last years of life A good and a likeable fellow of him one can say As a young man he fought in a war far away.