Blackwater

Bank high in the fields of Duhallow in flood waters of brown
The Blackwater River flows towards Mallow Town
As onwards towards saltwater it babbles on it's way
Swollen by heavy rainfall from late yesterday

Flowing in north east Cork in the gray morning light
The Blackwater in flood quite an amazing sight
From the hills of Sliabh Luachra it travels on it's way
In the flat rushy fields towards the ocean far away

The rivers that are so very old in time
Have inspired the writers of song, story and rhyme
For to write about them and on how to rivers they do grow
Of Nature and her ways so much to learn of and know

To equal the noise of the fans of a large sporting crowd
The Blackwater in flood has a babble that is loud
From the hills of Sliabh Luachra to the ocean near Youghal Town
Bank high in Duhallow in flood waters of brown.