A Wet August Day In Duhallow

The gray fog is stealing down the Boggeraghs again And the tall trees are soughing in the wind and the rain It is raincoat weather the sky looking gray The sun may not shine in Duhallow today Late August the best of the Summer has gone And September and Autumn is nearing and time ticking on The dark barn swallows close to the grass fly In wet weather the flying insects they live on never high in the sky The streams and rivers overflowing in flood waters of brown And the main road under water quite close to the town By the weather forecast tomorrow will be dry and clear Though for the Duhallow farmers this is not a good year Not a time of year for making silage or hay In Duhallow in August the weather changes from day to day The Freshening wind soughing in the tall trees On a cool and wet day of just fifteen degrees.