Denny Murray Was Our Hero

The man who owned the stud stallions Rambling Boy and Rising Light And who was widely known as the man to kill the blight In fancy i do see Denny Murray today On horse drawn sprayer spraying the potato gardens from here far away Though of love he did have a few flings in his life Denny Murray he did not have children or wife From his late teens to his mid fifties he lived on the wild side And beyond Ballydaly became known far and wide As well as a character quite a likeable and generous bloke And many a Guinness he drank and many a cigarette did smoke No better than he was to tell a good joke And prolonged bouts of laughter he often did provoke Often in the dark of the night when the pubs had closed down On his horse drawn cart he sang his way home to Ballydaly Lower from Millstreet Town Until death in all who knew him good memories of him will remain There will not be one quite like him in Ballydaly again In his fifties he went to live in Newmarket and it is said he gave the drinking of alcohol away And though i know he is long deceased i am not sure where his last remains lay He drank hard and smoked hard and worked hard when in his life's prime Till eventually he too became a victim of time He told jokes and stories and old songs he sung Denny Murray was our hero in days when we were young The money he worked so hard for he freely did spend And to many in financial trouble he was a good friend.