John Manley And Esther Cashman

Quite wonderful people as Sean Radley says so
They went off to live in England many years ago
They did not have to travel that far each other for to meet
Their love it did blossom in their Hometown of Millstreet

Far from the Town in view of high Claramore
Their future was to be on Ireland's sister shore
John Manley and Esther Cashman their family in England did raise
Where perhaps they often reminisced on their younger days

In Tullig on the high ground and in Millstreet Town
Where on ancient Clara Mountain as ever looks down
And of the friends they grew up with in their younger years
Old memories does outlive the nostalgic tears

In Duhallow two good people who did not choose to stay
In England they settled from Millstreet far away
Their adventurous spirits took them to live elsewhere
To England's biggest City in the big World out there

Two migrants from Millstreet who lived as man and wife
John Manley and Esther Cashman their love lasted for life
They died far from where their journey in life for them began
Tullig and Millstreet Town where they grew into a young woman and a young man

We are born as mortals why otherwise pretend
And our journeys in life for us all have to end
John Manley and Esther Cashman in Muswell grew old
But their lives stories surely deserve to be told.