In The Cool Duhallow Spring

The yellow primroses are blooming on the bohreen ditch today And the nesting birds are singing in the morning cool and gray And the sparrows on barn rafters build their straggly nests of hay And the swallows have returned from warm climates far away To fly above the old fields in search of flying insects their source of food And on shed rafters build cup shaped mud nests for to raise another brood I still love Mother Nature loved her since I was a boy And the beauty that she creates gives us memories to enjoy The wild growing flowers are blooming birds nest in grove and hedgerow And the dipper he is singing where the Finnow waters flow In the old field west of Millstreet Town where I lived for many years Yet for my fading memories I do not have any tears And the cattle out from wintering sheds and the red breast robin sing And pink blossoms on the apple trees in the cool Duhallow Spring.