The Swallowtail Jig
\nbrings tears to my eyes.
\nMy Irish roots
\ngrounded in the family name
\nEllis.
\nMy father’s people came
\nfrom the great isle of \u00c9ire
\nthe fire red in our hair
\ntestament to the fact
\nwe were the ‘true Irish.’
\nMy father’s father
\nwas a fiddler who wore
\na single gold hoop in his ear.
\nPlayed the fiddle and
\nstomped his worn dirt encrusted boot
\non the wooden porch where
\nwe kids bounced around until
\nthe fireflies came to light.
\nThe Swallowtail Jig
\njust a quaint country song to some
\ndigs deep into the furrows
\nof my family
\nof my love.<\/p>\n
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