I Thought I Left The Boggeragh Ranges

I thoughtv of the past that time would set me free I left the Boggeragh Ranges but they did not leave me Mushera, Caherbarnagh, Clara and Kippagh live in my memory In my visualizing them i often doessee In thought i visit Gortavehy and it's face of stone And drive on Cladoch Valley road to the Paps ofShrone And from the heights of Toorbonia i see far and wide Across Duhallow and Sliabh Luachra's green old countryside The man leaves the mountains but the mountains in him does stay The Boggeragh Ranges are in me today The hills near where i lived as a boy and in my life's prime In my memory have survived the Seasons of time The old hills in the Land once known as Hibernia were thousands of centuries old when the first people arrived And the great changes that time brings they have survived If i did tell you different this would be a lie They will be living in me until the day i do die.