Old Johnny

Old Johnny will not be going back to Ireland to his first home-place near Tralee
To the place in view of the mountains where the lamp of day he first did see
He says i do not feel homesick for Kerry i have not been back since i left in the Spring of sixty three
He does feel happy in south Warrnambool as happy as he could wish to be

He feels where he was raised today he would be a stranger an aged blow in from elsewhere
A balding gray haired old bloke from the bigger World out there
But for where he was born and raised in he has never shed any nostalgic tears
It is just another place to him and he has not lived there for fifty two years

He says where i came from the main daily topics were Hurling and Gaelic Football
And politics and religion and farming things that did not interest him at all
He is happy growing old in south west Victoria in the City of greater Warrnambool
Thousands of kilometers south by sky travel of where he went to primary school

Two years ago he lost to cancer the mother of his children his London born wife Kate
For forty six years his best friend and his beloved soul mate
Old Johnny who says if he said he missed his first home-place near Tralee he would be telling a lie
He is happy in Warrnambool by the Pacific where he will stay till the day he does die.