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Skylark: 'The Boys of Mullaghbawn'

The Boys of Mullaghbawn On a Monday morning early my wandering steps they'd lead me 
Down by a farmer's station, through meadows and green lawn 
I heard great lamentation, the small birds they were warbling
 We'll have no more engagements with the boys of Mullaghbawn. I beg your pardon, ladies, but grant me this one favour 
I hope it is no treason on you I now must call 
I'm condoling late and early, my heart is near to breaking 
All for a noble lady that lives near to Finnae. Squire Jackson he's unequalled for honour and for reason
 He never turned traitor nor betrayed the rights of man
 But now we are in danger from a vile deceiving stranger. Who has ordered transportation for the boys of Mullaghbawn. As our heroes crossed the ocean I'm told the ship in motion 
Did stand in great commotion as if the seas ran dry
 With the trout and salmon gaping the cuckoo's left her station
 Farewell to old Killeavey and the hills of Mullaghbawn. 
To end my lamentation we're all in consternation
 For want of education I here must end my song
 Who cares for recreation without consideration
 We're sent for transportation from the hills of Mullaghbawn. 
Sung by Len Graham of the Belfast folk group Skylark. He is an Irish traditional singer and song collector from County Antrim, Northern Ireland. He is a leading authority on Folk music in Ireland. Len Graham was born in County Antrim, Northern Ireland. His father, a fiddler, brought him to sessions in the local area as a young boy. Throughout the 1960s, Len travelled around Ireland to record and preserve folk songs. Graham won the All Ireland Fleadh Cheoil na hÉireann traditional singing competition in 1971, an important accolade for Irish traditional musicians around the world. This song records a real happening during the last quarter of the eighteenth century, the transportation of peasant farmers for some agrarian offence at Mullaghbawn ('An Mullach Bán' - 'The White Summit') near Newry, County Armagh. Mullaghbawn is a mountainy parish in South Armagh and this is one of the few songs in Ireland which praises a landlord! It dates from the latter part of the 18th century, an era of absentee landlordism, but Richard Jackson, a local squire, lived on his estate, tilled his land and encouraged his tenants to do the same. In his will he provided for the poorest and oldest of his tenants and to this day people in the district benefit from his bequests. It is thought that the 'heroes' mentioned in the song were taking part in the Rising of 1798. Text and notes from a German website - http://mysongbook.de/msb/songs/b/boys... Images from Google.ie