A Wet August Day In Duhallow

The gray fog is stealing down the Boggeraghs again
And the tall trees are soughing in the wind and the rain
It is raincoat weather the sky looking gray
The sun may not shine in Duhallow today

Late August the best of the Summer has gone
And September and Autumn is nearing and time ticking on
The dark barn swallows close to the grass fly
In wet weather the flying insects they live on never high in the sky

The streams and rivers overflowing in flood waters of brown
And the main road under water quite close to the town
By the weather forecast tomorrow will be dry and clear
Though for the Duhallow farmers this is not a good year

Not a time of year for making silage or hay
In Duhallow in August the weather changes from day to day
The Freshening wind soughing in the tall trees
On a cool and wet day of just fifteen degrees.