 Genius Lyrics
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The Wolfe Tones – In Belfast
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Cast your eyes on a spot, dear Lord / It's a spot that's close to Hell / It's a burning, boiling cauldron / Where people, they must dwell / The sun won't shine in my backyard / It'
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The Wolfe Tones – Skibbereen
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Oh father, dear / The day might come / In answer to your call / And each Irish man / With feelings strong / Would answer to the call / And I'd be the man / To lead the band
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The Wolfe Tones – Hibernia
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We left our home, Hibernia / Her mountains and her valleys green / Evicted from our ancient home / By the landlords, evil men / The bailiffs and the sheriffs came / The peelers and
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The Wolfe Tones – You'll Never Beat the Irish, Part 1
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In eleven sixty-seven, they came to Ireland on the make / They were followed by invasions and by conquests in their wake / The kings and queens of England made the land a
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The Wolfe Tones – The Irish Brigade
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The mess is tent is full and the glasses are set / And the gallant Count Thomond is president yet / The veterans arose like an uplifted lance / Crying "Comrades, a health to the
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The Wolfe Tones – Joe McDonnell
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[Intro] / (Here's Tommy to sing of a young man from Belfast called Joe McDonnell) / Oh, me name is Joe McDonnell, from Belfast town I came / A city I will never see again / For in
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The Wolfe Tones – On The One Road
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[Chorus] / We're on the one road / Sharing the one load / We're on the road to God knows where / We're on the one road / It may be the wrong road / But we're together now, who
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The Wolfe Tones – Highland Paddy
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One evening fair as the sun was shining / To Kilkenny I did ride / I did meet with Captain Brady / A tall commander by his side / [Chorus] / Then you are welcome, Highland Paddy
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The Wolfe Tones – Siobhain
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Eyes of blue, sparkle like the morning dew / Especially in the summertime / When I know you're really mine / My Siobhain, my Siobhain / When you smile / The world seems to stop a
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The Wolfe Tones – The Streets Of New York
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I was eighteen years old, when I went down to Dublin / With a fistful of money and a cartload of dreams / "Take your time", said me father, "Stop rushing like hell / And remember
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The Wolfe Tones – Four Seasons
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[Chorus] / Oh, the four seasons come and the four seasons go / In a cycle that spins our life away / The new year, it is here and the old one has gone / For time doesn't stop for
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The Wolfe Tones – This Is The Day
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This is the day, our day has come / When we must find the path, the peace for all our people / For much too long, we were a divided people / Now we must take a chance for peace
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The Wolfe Tones – The Foggy Dew
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As down the glen one Easter morn' / To a city fair rode I / There armed lines of marching men / In squadrons passed me by / No pipe did hum, no battle drum / Did sounds its loud
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The Wolfe Tones – Sunday Bloody Sunday
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Well it was Sunday, Bloody Sunday / When they shot the people there / The cries of fourteen martyrs / Filled the brave Derry air / They tried to blame the Provos / You must blame
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The Wolfe Tones – Spancil Hill
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Last night as I lay dreamin' of pleasant days gone by / Me mind bein' bent on rambling, to Ireland I did fly / I stepped on board a vision and I followed with the wind / Till first
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The Wolfe Tones – Merman
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I'm a sailor man from Wexford town, I've sailed the seven seas / I will tell you a true story of the sunny Southern Seas / We were caught up in the doldrums while waiting for a
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The Wolfe Tones – The Big Strong Man
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Have you heard about the big strong man? / He lived in a caravan / Have you heard about the Jeffries-Johnson fight? / Oh, what a hell of a fight / You can take all the heavyweights
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The Wolfe Tones – The Men Behind the Wire
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[Chorus] / Armoured cars and tanks and guns / Came to take away our sons / But every man must stand behind / The men behind the wire / Through the little streets of Belfast / In
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The Wolfe Tones – Valley of Knockanure
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You may sing and speak of old Easter week / And the heroes of Ninety-Eight / Of the Fenian men who roamed the glen / In victory or defeat / Their names on history's page are told
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The Wolfe Tones – Twice Daily
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When I was a lad I was so glad / To go out in the daytime / With me fork and a bottle and a cork / To help out in the haytime / Tossin' hay one fine day / I met young Lucy Bailey
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The Wolfe Tones – Grace
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As we gathered in the chapel here in old Kilmainham Jail / I think about these past few weeks, oh will they say we've failed? / From our school days they have told us we must yearn
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The Wolfe Tones – God Save Ireland
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High upon the gallows tree swung the noble hearted three / By the vengeful tyrant stricken in their bloom / But they met him face to face with the courage of their race / And they
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The Wolfe Tones – Botany Bay
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[Chorus] / Farewell to your bricks and mortar / Farewell to your dirty lime / Farewell to your gangways and your gang planks / And to hell with your overtime / For the good ship
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The Wolfe Tones – Rifles of the I.R.A.
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In nineteen hundred and sixteen / The forces of the crown / To take the orange white and green bombarded Dublin town / But in twenty-one, Britannia's huns / Were forced to earn
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The Wolfe Tones – Holy Ground
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As I rolled into Frisco, boys, I went upon the street / I drank and gambled all night long, as drunk as I could be / I drank and gambled all night long, till I could drink no more
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The Wolfe Tones – Chicago
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I left my homeland, bound for the U.S.A / And to Chicago, Illinois, it was there I made my way / I had some cousins there I'd never seen or known beside / But then me mother said I
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The Wolfe Tones – The Night Before Larry Was Stretched
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The night before Larry was stretched / And the boys, they all paid him a visit / A bit in their sacks, too, they fetched / And they pawned all their duds till they ris' it / For
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The Wolfe Tones – Song of Liberty
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Stand beside me, for peace and for liberty / For freedoms denied to many nations / With sad emotions, for borders that run through these lands / And the hope that wish justice and
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The Wolfe Tones – The Dying Rebel
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The night was dark and the fight was ended / The moon shone down O'Connell Street / I stood alone where brave men perished / They're gone, they're gone, their God to meet / The
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The Wolfe Tones – The Boys Of The Old Brigade
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"Oh father, why are you so sad / On this bright Easter morn? / When Irish men are proud and glad / Of the land where they were born" / Son, I see in mem’ries few / Of far-off
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The Wolfe Tones – Janey Mac I'm Nearly Forty
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Well, I've been sing most my lifetime / Of Rockall, strong men an' Botany Bay / Singing songs of love and hope and freedom / While time had slowly slipped away / Have you noticed
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The Wolfe Tones – Slievenamon
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Alone, all alone by the wave-washed strand / And alone in a crowded hall / The hall it is gay and the waves they are grand / But my heart is not here at all / It flies far away by
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The Wolfe Tones – Butcher's Apron
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[Chorus] / Where is the flag of England? / Go north, south, east or west / Wherever's there's wealth to plunder / Or land to be possessed! / Wherever there's feeble races / To
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The Wolfe Tones – Flight Of Earls
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I can hear the bells of Dublin / In this lonely waiting room / And the paperboys are singin' in the rain / Not too long before they take us / To the airport and the noise / To get
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The Wolfe Tones – The Merry Ploughboy
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Oh I am a merry ploughboy / And I plough the feilds all day / 'Till a sudden thought came to my mind / That I should roam away / For im tired of this civilian life / Since the day
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The Wolfe Tones – You'll Never Beat The Irish Part III
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In Nineteen Twenty-Two, well, they divided up our land / Six counties held by England, it was all they could command / Against the wishes of the majority, of the people of the land
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The Wolfe Tones – The Sun is Burning
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The sun is burning in the sky / Strands of clouds go slowly drifting by / In the park the dreamy bees / Are droning in the flowers, among the trees / And the sun burns in the sky
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The Wolfe Tones – A Row in the Town (Erin Go Brath)
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I'll sing you a song of a row in the town / When the green flag went up and the crown flag came down / 'Twas the neatest and sweetest thing ever you saw / And they played that
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The Wolfe Tones – Sean South Of Garryowen
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Sad are the homes round Garryowen / Since lost their joy and pride / And the banshee cry links every vale / Along the Shannonside / That city of the ancient walls / Unbroken treaty
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The Wolfe Tones – James Connolly
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[Spoken] / The man was all shot through that came today into the Barrack Square / And a soldier I, I am not proud to say that we killed him there / They brought him from the prison
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The Wolfe Tones – Banna Strand
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'Twas on Good Friday morning / All in the month of May / A German ship was signalling / Beyond out in the bay / With twenty thousand rifles / All ready for to land / But no
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The Wolfe Tones – The Old Maid
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[Chorus] / A landsman, a pinsman, a tinker or a tailor / Fiddler or a dancer, a ploughboy or a sailor / Gentleman, a poor man, a fool or a witty / Don't let me die an old maid
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The Wolfe Tones – The Patriot Game
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Come all you rebels and list' while I sing / For the love of one's country is a terrible thing / It banishes fear with the speed of a flame / And it makes us all part of the
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The Wolfe Tones – Long Kesh
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There's a place just outside Lisburn / It's a place that's known to few / Where a group of Irish rebels / Are held by Faulkner's crew / They are forced to live in cages / Like the
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The Wolfe Tones – Paddy Lie Back
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'Twas a cold and frosty morning in December / And all of me money, it was spent / Oh, where it went to, oh Lord, I can't remember / So down to the shipping office went / [Chorus
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The Wolfe Tones – The Man From Mullingar
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You may talk and write and boast about your fenians and your clans / And how the boys from County Cork beat up the Black and Tans / And view a little codger who came out without a
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The Wolfe Tones – The Fighting 69th
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Come all you gallant heroes, along with me combine / I'll sing a song, it won't take long, of the Fighting Sixty Ninth / They're a band of men brave, stout and bold / From Ireland
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The Wolfe Tones – The Orange and the Green
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Oh, my father was an Ulsterman, proud Protestant was he / My mother was a Catholic and from County Cork was she / They were married in two churches, and lived happily enough
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The Wolfe Tones – Seán Treacy
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The Moon, it shone down on Dublin Town / When the deadly fight was o'er / Thousands lay on the cold, cold ground / Their lives to play no more / The Moon, it shone down in O'
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