The Irish Brigade - Beneath a Single Banner (2015) lyrics
[The Irish Brigade - Beneath a Single Banner 2015 lyrics]
In the county Donegal
Where the grass was green and tall
Around the sun-kissed beaches of lichen
With the village of Dungloe and the
Isle of Arranmore sure, for beauty
There's no land could be richer
It was there when I was young
I first heard the verses sung
Of the fight against foreign imposition
Of the glory and the pain
Of the youths who died in vain
To save Ireland, dear from partition
I've learnt of battles fiercе
Of Connolly and Pearse
And the many, many morе who were taken
And I knew within my heart
I would surely play my part
'Ere the cause for which
They died be forsaken
With my father I did go
To the hills above Dungloe
Where I joined a provincial division
But my father sorely paid
Taken in a border raid
And shot down near Omagh for sedition
Oh, but all has not been lost
For Pearse's rebel gold
Will soon march in the true Irish manner
Oh, for freedom is the call
Till we rally one and all
United beneath a single banner
Oh, for freedom is the call
Till we rally one and all
United beneath a single banner
Where the grass was green and tall
Around the sun-kissed beaches of lichen
With the village of Dungloe and the
Isle of Arranmore sure, for beauty
There's no land could be richer
It was there when I was young
I first heard the verses sung
Of the fight against foreign imposition
Of the glory and the pain
Of the youths who died in vain
To save Ireland, dear from partition
I've learnt of battles fiercе
Of Connolly and Pearse
And the many, many morе who were taken
And I knew within my heart
I would surely play my part
'Ere the cause for which
They died be forsaken
With my father I did go
To the hills above Dungloe
Where I joined a provincial division
But my father sorely paid
Taken in a border raid
And shot down near Omagh for sedition
Oh, but all has not been lost
For Pearse's rebel gold
Will soon march in the true Irish manner
Oh, for freedom is the call
Till we rally one and all
United beneath a single banner
Oh, for freedom is the call
Till we rally one and all
United beneath a single banner