Song Of The Celts
Song Of The Celts Lyrics
There's a blossom that blows, that scoffs at the snows
And it faces root fast the rage of the blast
It sweetens the sod, no slave ever trod
Since mountains upreared their altar to God
[Chorus]
The flower of the free, the heather, the heather
The Bretons and Scots and Irish together
The Manx and the Welsh and Cornish forever
Six nations are we, proud, Celtic and free
[Verse 2]
Our blossom is red as the life's blood we shed
And for liberty's cause against alien laws
When Lochiel and O'Neill and Llewellyn drew steel
For Alba and Erin and Cambria's weal
[Chorus]
The flower of the free, the heather, the heather
The Bretons and Scots and Irish together
The Manx and the Welsh and Cornish forever
Six nations are we, proud, Celtic and free
[Verse 3]
Let the Saxon and Dane bear the rule o'er the plain
And the hem of God's robe is our sceptre and globe
And the Lord of all light, revered in His height
For heaven and earth rose up in His sight
The flower of the free, the heather, the heather
The Bretons and Scots and Irish together
The Manx and the Welsh and Cornish forever
Six nations are we, proud, Celtic and free
About
“The Celts” refers broadly to all people who speak or spoke one of the Celtic Languages, practice Celtic religion or traditions, whether those that existed in the past, or their modern descendants.
This song specifically focuses on 5 Celtic language/culture groups: Irish, Scottish & Manx, who speak the Goidelic language and Bretons & Cornish, who speak the ‘Brittonic’ variety of the Celtic language family. The Manx come from the Isle of Man in the Irish Sea, the Cornish from Cornwall, and the Bretons live in France, but practice Celtic traditions, including music.
The song encourages all of these people to see their common heritage, to unite and support each other in the face of attacks/agression/colonization by other non-Celtic groups.
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