Henry Brown

He lived in Kilnamartyra not far from Macroom Town And though I did know his sisters Eileen and Noreen Brown I never did meet Henry though of him I did know He was a famed road bowler going back some time ago Well known in road bowling circles where his name was to the fore On the roadways of mid Cork he won many a bowling score His nieces the Cooney girls famous bowlers perhaps at their prime day They follow in his footsteps cannot beat breeding as some say On the narrow by roads of mid Cork he will never bowl again But with those who knew and met him good memories of him will remain Our biological clock is ticking and it ever ticks away And for each and everyone of us a final night and day Henry Brown the road bowler his last score of bowls did play And may he ever rest in peace with Nature he now lay.