In Duhallow Today

Far north in Duhallow where the Blackwater flow
In the fields of the badger and the silver backed crow
The wind from the Boggeraghs is blowing cold today
And the sun in gray rain clouds is hidden away

It is rain coat weather the rain drizzling down
And the waterways flowing bank high in flood waters of brown
The cattle in the farmyard sheds bellowing for silage or hay
It is wintery in Duhallow on this February day

The weather temperatures down to zero degrees
And the cold wind is soughing in bare deciduous trees
In the bare and wet fields no flowers to be seen and grass refuse to grow
Recently all of Duhallow was covered in snow

But each passing day one more nearer to Spring
When the wildborn nesting birds will whistle and sing
And the deciduous trees will sprout new leaves of green
And wildflowers will be blooming on the ditch of every bohreen

The gray fogs of rain cloaks the fields by the hill
And the winds from the Boggeraghs are blowing a cold chill
The sun in the rain clouds is hidden away
It is wintery, windy and wet in Duhallow today.