Duhallow Today

Far north in Duhallow where the Blackwater flow In the fields of the badger and the silver backed crow The wind from the Boggeraghs is blowing cold today And the sun in gray rain clouds is hidden away It is rain coat weather the rain drizzling down And the waterways flowing bank high in flood waters of brown The cattle in the farmyard sheds bellowing for silage or hay It is wintery in Duhallow on this February day The weather temperatures down to zero degrees And the cold wind is soughing in bare deciduous trees In the bare and wet fields no flowers to be seen and grass refuse to grow Recently all of Duhallow was covered in snow But each passing day one more nearer to Spring When the wildborn nesting birds will whistle and sing And the deciduous trees will sprout new leaves of green And wildflowers will be blooming on the ditch of every bohreen The gray fogs of rain cloaks the fields by the hill And the winds from the Boggeraghs are blowing a cold chill The sun in the rain clouds is hidden away It is wintery, windy and wet in Duhallow today.