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The Shannon Drowning 1893

On the 15th of August

In the year of ninety three

Heart rending was the news

That spread in this locality

Each man and boy did breath a prayer

 Each man woman shed a tear

For the souls of those poor victims

Who were drowned upon the sea

 

From Moyne Quay they sailed away

For Tarbert they were bound

But little was their notion

That night they would be drowned

On reaching Carrig Island

 The seas began to roar

 Their screams and cries they pierced the skies

When they found they were no more

 

No doubt it was a dreadful sight

As everybody knows

To see then plunging in the deep

 Without a place to go

Their fate will be recorded along the Kerry shore

 God Bless their wives and families that they will see no more

 

The names of those I will disclose

 In hopes youll for them pray

That they may gain salvation

Upon that Judgement Day

 Maurice Murphy and his loving son

The owners of the boat

God help his wife and family  

His loss they may deplore

 

The next was Miss Scanlon

Likewise her sister Kate

With Michael and Brigid

I t grieves me to relate

They went on a tour of pleasure

But little did they know

They swelling tide would rise so high

And prove their overthrow

 

The next was Patrick Lyndon

And his loving sister too

Michael and Thomas B uvenizer

It grieves me to tell you

Bill Naughton and John Holly

Tom Gleasure a neat young man

May the lord have mercy on their souls

And I hope you’ll say Amen

 

The next was Hannah Sullivan

And Nora Fitzgerald III explain

Hannah Mc.Grath and Richard Allen

You all do know their names

I hope their souls are happy

Let every Christmas pray

That they gain salvation

Upon the Judgement Day

 

Around the coast o f Kerry

Likewise the coast of Clare

Each heart did beat with sorrow

And in silence breathed a prayer

Unto the Blessed Virgin

And the lord who rules on high

To have mercy on there precious souls

For suddenly they did die.

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