Climbing Mushera Today

In the sunny blue sky just a few clouds of gray And in the parkland nearby children laugh at their play But in wintery Duhallow from here far away The young and the ageing climbing Mushera today Christmas Day in Mushera can be windy, damp and cold In latter December the old year very old But climbing the steep slopes of Mushera in weather temperatures near zero degrees Through the damp bracken and wet to their knees The local Christmas Day climbers the cold and wet to them hold no fear Climb to Mushera's summit as they do every year For to climb in depths of Winter on the roughest of terrain When brown storm water is bank high in every drain Does take courage that one can only admire On a day when it is comfortable to sit by a warm fire And with a wine or a beer wash the rich food down In the high coutryside above Millstreet Town In the sunny blue sky just a few clouds of gray And in the parkland nearby children laugh at their play Far north of here in farmyard sheds cattle are bellowing for silage or hay And the climbers are climbing on Mushera today.