The Dubliners - God Save Ireland lyrics
[The Dubliners - God Save Ireland lyrics]
"God save Ireland, " said the heroes
"God save Ireland, " said they all
Whether on the scaffold high or
The battlefield we die
Oh, what matter when for Erin dear we fall?
High upon the gallows tree
Swung the noblehearted three
By the vengeful tyrant stricken
In their bloom but they met him face to face
With the courage of their race
And they went with souls
Undaunted to their doom
Climbed they up the rugged stair
Rang their voices out in prayer
Then with England's fatal cord
Around them cast
Close beside the gallows tree
Kissed like brothers lovingly
True to home and faith and
Freedom to the last
Never 'till the latest day shall
The memory pass away
Of the gallant lives thus given for our land
But on the cause must go
Amidst joy and weal and woe
'Till we make our Isle a
Nation free and grand
"God save Ireland, " said they all
Whether on the scaffold high or
The battlefield we die
Oh, what matter when for Erin dear we fall?
High upon the gallows tree
Swung the noblehearted three
By the vengeful tyrant stricken
In their bloom but they met him face to face
With the courage of their race
And they went with souls
Undaunted to their doom
Climbed they up the rugged stair
Rang their voices out in prayer
Then with England's fatal cord
Around them cast
Close beside the gallows tree
Kissed like brothers lovingly
True to home and faith and
Freedom to the last
Never 'till the latest day shall
The memory pass away
Of the gallant lives thus given for our land
But on the cause must go
Amidst joy and weal and woe
'Till we make our Isle a
Nation free and grand