September 1913

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[Intro]

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[Verse 1]

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What need you being come to sense

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But fumble in a greasy till

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And add the halfpence to the pence

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And prayer to shivering prayer until



[Chorus 1]

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You've dried the marrow from the bone

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For men were born to pray and save, pray and save

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Romantic Ireland's dead and gone

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It's with O'Leary in the grave, in the grave



[Verse 2]

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Yet they were of a different kind

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Those names that stilled your childish play

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They have gone about the world like wind

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But little time had they to pray



[Chorus 2]

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For whom the hangman's rope was spun

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And what, God help us, could they save, could they save?

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Romantic Ireland's dead and gone

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It's with O'Leary in the grave, in the grave



[Verse 3]



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Was it for this the wild geese spread?

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The grey wing upon every tide

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For this that all that blood was shed

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For this Fitzgerald died



[Chorus 3]

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And Robert Emmet and Wolfe Tone

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All that delirium of the brave of the brave

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Romantic Ireland's dead and gone

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It's with O'Leary in the grave, in the grave



[Verse 4]

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Yet could we turn the years again

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And we call those exiles as they were

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In all their loneliness and pain

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You'd cry: