An Cat Dubh - Kilkelly Lyrics

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Kilkelly, Ireland 1860, my dear and loving
e
son John,
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Your good friend schoolmaster Pat
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McNamara
D e
Was so good as to write these words down.
G D
Your brothers have all got to find work in

England,
C D h
The house is so empty and sad.
e G
The crop of potatoes is sorely infected,
D e
A third to a half of them bad.