Drumphea On A Hill


Music and lyrics by Richie Kavanagh

Chorus

Drumphea, Drumphea I remember ye still.
A beautiful chapel way up on a hill.
On Sunday we’d all go there ta pray.
We never did miss mass upon a Sunday.

As a chap I would walk there, it was almost two mile.
I remember the people, they all wore a smile.
There were bicycles, motors an’ the odd asses cart.
A half hour to walk there, from finish to start.

Chorus

Drumphea, Drumphea I remember ye still.
A beautiful chapel way up on a hill,
On Sunday we’d all go there ta pray.
We never did miss mass upon a Sunday.

The priest bought some speakers an’ a microphone.
It didn’t take long now for them ta get going.
Sonny Moore he’d be testing one, two, three, four.
Then we’d all hear the priest like never before.

Chorus

Drumphea, Drumphea I remember ye still.
A beautiful chapel way up on a  hill.
On Sunday we’d all go there ta pray.
We never did miss mass upon a Sunday.

At a quarter past nine, the bell it did ring.
Then up on the gallery, me hymn book I’d bring.
Mrs Ryan played the organ, while we all sang along.
Great memories of childhood, that now are long gone.

Chorus

Drumphea, Drumphea I remember ye still.
A beautiful chapel way up on the hill.
On Sunday we’d all go there ta pray.
We never did miss mass upon a Sunday.

No we never did miss mass upon a Sunday.

“An’ we’d get the Sunday paper off of Stephen in the van”

“Do ye remember, it was great”

 

About the song……….. ”Drumphea on a Hill”

I have great memories, of walking to Drumphea Mass.

It was a 30 minute walk,to the chapel, for mass, which began at 9.30am. We would leave home, at 9-Oclock, if we could reach Stephen Murphy’s Shop, before the quarter bell rang, we be in time for mass. “An’ we’d get the Sunday paper off of Stephen, in the van,outside the chapel gate.