The Boys Of Barr na Sraide

[@stepno]

Just stumbled on this and had to say thank you for the lovely use of local pictures to illustrate the song. I'd heard it 31 years ago in County Mayo, but don't recall the singers' knowing Cliffords or the specific Kerry place references. (I suspect they picked it up from Christy Moore, who I believe had a TV show back then.)

[@Ashley_and_Casey]

Very pretty song and a nice job performing it. Thanks.

[@Itsaboutthewaterlife]

Good tune.

[@maureenmcc3875]

Wonderful song and your voice makes it excellent ~~ do you have more tunes, Please !!!

[@ba44a]

love it

[@johnoconnor4623]

the words: Oh the town it climbed the mountain and looked upon the sea At sleeping time or waking it’s there I long to be To see again those kind old streets where first I grew a man With the Boys of Barr na Sráide who hunted for the wren Now with cudgels stout we roamed about to hunt the dreólín We searched for birds in every furze from Litir to Dooneen We jumped for joy beneath the sky life held no plant or plan And we Boys of Barr na Sráide who hunted for the wren And when the hills were bleeding and the rifles were aflame To the rebel homes of Kerry the Saxon stranger came But the men who beat the Auxies and fought the Black-and-Tans Were once Boys in Barr na Sráide who hunted for the wren So here's a health to them tonight those lads who laughed with me By the lovely Shannon river or the slope at Bean 'a Tí Sean Downing and Batt Andy and the Sheehans Con and Dan Where once Boys of Barr na Sráide who hunted for the wren So here's a health to them tonight for they have gone their way Deep in the heart of London town or over in Broadway And I am left to sing their deeds and praise them while I can Those Boys of Barr na Sráide who hunted for the wren And when the wheels of life runs down and peace comes over me Just lay me down in that old town between the hills and sea And I will sleep in those green fields where first I grew a man With those Boys of Barr na Sráide who hunted for the wren

[@skippership7]

@Jacobitejim so, clifford didn’t write that verse eh?>so what was the name of the person who did write it?