Susan Mallaghan
You sang me to sleepwith 'The Spinning Wheel',
so many times; to me,
you did it more sweetly
than Delia Murphy. You saved me,
much to my embarrassment,
from a beating by Paul Curran
in Kilmorey Park, swinging
your sweeping brush.
And when you died,
Thelma wanted me
to kiss you in your coffin.
URL: www.mourne.org/granny.htm
of 'The Spinning Wheel'
and listen to Delia Murphy
singing it.
