Den Jack

Though perhaps he never spent much time at school Old Den Jack was never anybody's fool And you might be pressed to find wiser than he For wisdom never comes with a college degree. He found his knowledge in the fields around And when wings of swallow almost touched the ground Old Den Jack he would look up at the sky Saying we will soon have rain in Lisnaboy. And later on that evening in the rain We would agree Den Jack was right again But then his bond to Nature was so strong And on Nature's matters he was never wrong. He did not see the World and travel far and wide And he lived his life in his own countryside To Lisnaboy and Cullen he was true And I often marvelled at the things he knew. I never could recall old Den Jack's wife For she had died before I came to life But their children John, Jer, Denny and Margaret I still remember and I won't forget. He lived in his thatched farmhouse in Lisnaboy And his long life old Den Jack did enjoy With Mother Nature he lived in harmony And you might be pressed to find wiser than he.