[Verse 1]
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In the lowland of Creggan, there lives a white hare,
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As swift as the swallow that flies through the air.
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You may tramp the world over but none to compare
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to the pride of old Creggan, that bonnie white hare.
[Verse 2]
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One clear autumn morning, as you will suppose,
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ohh The red golden sun o’er the green mountain rose.
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Barney Conway came down and he did declare,
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“This day I’ll put an end to the bonnie white hare.”
[Verse 3]
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so He searched through the lowlands and down through the glens,
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all among the wild ditches where the white hare had ends,
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Till at last coming down o’er the heather so fair,
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From behind the wild thistle out jumps the white hare.
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“Bang! bang!” went his gun and his dogs it slipped too.
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As swift as the wind over the green mountain flew.
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But his dog soon came back, and it made Barney sigh,
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For he knew that the white hare had bid him goodbye.
[Verse 5]
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and We’re some jolly sportsmen down here from Pomeroy
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From Cookstown, Dungannon, and likewise the Moy.
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With our pedigree greyhounds we’ve travelled from far
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And we’ve come down to Creggan in our fine motor car.
[Verse 6]
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well into the lowlands these huntsmen did go
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In search of the white hare they look high and low,
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Till at last Barney Conway from a bog bank so rare
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Shouted out to the huntsmen, “There lies the white hare.”
[Verse 7]
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so They call up their greyhounds from off the green lea
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And Barney and the huntsmen all jumped high with glee,
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it was there on the bog bank all gathered around,
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Seven dogs and nine men did that poor hare surround.
[Verse 8]
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Oh No wonder the white hare did tremble with fear
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As she stood on her hind legs, she would raise her big ears,
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as she stood on her hind legs with one gallant spring,
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She jumped over the greyhounds and broke through the ring.
[Verse 9]
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Well that chase It went on, it was beautiful view
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As swift as the wind o’er the green mountain flew.
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But those pedigree greyhounds, they didn’t run far.
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They come back and went home in their fine motor car.
[Verse 10]
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Then there came another man and you all know him well;
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His name was mick kelly with the Bonnie Black Nell.
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oh In search of the white hare, today “I’ll have fun.
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ill bet fifty to one my Black Nell does her turn.”
[Verse 11]
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Five turns the hare got then from Bonnie Black Nell,
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And the sixth one was given around John Haughey’s well.
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‘it was there we lost sight of the hare and the dog,
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And then ten minutes later they come o’er the bog.
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Well, that chase it went on. It was great for to see.
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The white hare and the black dog both roamed light and free,
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Till she travelled to Esker where she knew the lands well,
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And to Bonnie Black Nell there soon bid farewell.
[Verse 13]
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Oh And now to conclude and to finish this rhyme
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I hope you’ll forgive me for singing all this while.
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If there’s any amongst you in Carrick more fair,
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please drink up a health to that bonnie white hare.