Fr Joe Murphy

Sixty six years a catholic priest many of them spent in Nebraska in the U S of A Sad news out of Millstreet Co Cork Fr Joe Murphy has passed away In the old cemetery at the Town's West End his last remains lay Near where he first looked on the bright lamp of day As human life goes his was a lengthy span And it can be said of Fr Joe that he was a good man The World better for him living in it in truth of him one can say And respect to his memory one only can pay In his long lifetime he always planted karma's good seed And of more of his kind the Human World is in need He lived by his conscience tried to help everyone His late father and mother in him did raise a good son For all of us from life there is a final release Near his first home Fr Joe Murphy is now at peace And though the gift of life from his body has gone Good memories of the great man he was will live on.