Fr John Joe Garvey

Since as a pupil in the nineteen fifties he attended the Boys Primary School in Millstreet Town The roadways of life he has been up and down Even as a young teenager when his hair was brown He dreamed of helping others not of wealth and renown Fr John Joe Garvey perhaps in his early seventies is a devout man He is helping the poorest of people in Sudan Yet he seems a forgotten person in his Hometown today And this does seem a sad thing for to have to say Where there are many hungry to be fed and many souls for to save It takes a brave and honorable person to live to do good where many go to an early grave To drought ravaged and war torn tropical Sudan a person like Fr John Joe is an asset indeed And of far more of his kind the Human World is in need People like him are people one can only admire And of singing their praises i for one cannot tire But sadly for his sort never a street parade It is not out of acts of compassion and kindness that heroes are made In his Hometown of Millstreet in Duhallow where his journey in life began Today it does seem he is a forgotten man To do good in the World one who has traveled far To a drought ravaged tropical Country of famine and war.