The Wolfe Tones - You’ll Never Beat the Irish, Part 2 lyrics

At the Siege of Limerick
Patrick Sarsfield won the day
But the Irish they were cheated
When his army went away
Queen Ann and her successors forced
On us those Penal Laws
Denying the rights and liberty
Of religion, land, and property!

Murder, plunder fallaballa, clear the way
Cheating, stealing, diddly-idel day
Ducking, diving, fallaballa, clear the way
Diddly-aidel doh, diddly-aidel day

Then came the three mad Georges and
They had us nearly fooled
They couldn't speak the lingo of
The countries that they ruled
Puppets of the ascendancy they
Kept the Irish down
But the rebels and the whiteboys hard
Their army on the run!

You'll never beat the Irish
No matter what you do
You can put us down and keep us out
But we'll come back again
You know we are the fighting Irish
And we'll fight until the end you know
You should have known: You'll
Never beat the Irish

The famine Queen
Victoria came to rule us by and by
She was on the throne so bloody long
We thought she'd never die!
She presided over hunger, famine, poverty
And disease
She drove the people from their home to their
Death or to the land beyond the sea!

Murder, plunder fallaballa, clear the way
Cheating, stealing, diddly-idel day
Ducking, diving, fallaballa, clear the way
Diddly-aidel doh, diddly-aidel day

All across the 19th century
Fought oppression with great zeal
O'Connell spoke his blarney for
Emancipation and repeal
Young Ireland and the Fenians tried
The dynamite and the gun
Parnell, the Men of Sixteen died
Then Michael Collins had them on the run!

You'll never beat the Irish
No matter what you do
You can put us down and keep us out
But we'll come back again
You know we are the fighting Irish
And we'll fight until the end you know
You should have known: You'll
Never beat the Irish

Murder, plunder fallaballa, clear the way
Cheating, stealing, diddly-idel day
Ducking, diving, fallaballa, clear the way
Diddly-aidel doh, diddly-aidel day