A Kanturk Migrant

He's happy now to live in Ferntree Gully though of homesickness he's one who did know
For Kanturk Town in North Cork in Duhallow where the babbling waters of the Allow flow
Towards Leaders Bridge to join with the Blackwater even as the bird flies far north and far away
From the suburb by the wooded hills of The Dandenong Ranges where he has lived now for many a day
In his early sixties six times a grandfather his wife of thirty five years is from nearby Belgrave Town
They live quite close to the busy Burwood Highway where buses, cars and trucks to and from Melbourne buzz up and down
A different sort of place to Kanturk in Duhallow where the journey in life for him began
Though he has become an Australian on paper at heart he'll always be a Kanturk man
I have not seen him for a couple of Seasons last time I saw him I remember well
He was singing a song called The Bold Thady Quill in the barroom of the Ferntree Gully Hotel
he loves that song he sings it with a passion the memories of what was in the migrant does remain
The memories and his North Cork accent are still with him these he brought from Duhallow and retain,
He's happy now to live in Ferntree Gully the suburb in view of the Wooded hill
And perhaps when he is singing at the local he sings again of the Bold Thady Quill.