Mo chara is mo lao thu | |
Is aisling tri n× allaibh | |
Do deineadh ar× ir dom | |
IgCorcaigh go d× anach | |
Ar leaba im aonar | |
I remember you back in the GPO | |
With Connolly and Clarke | |
Laughin' with McDermott | |
Through the bullets and the sparks | |
Always with the smart remark | |
Your eyes blazin' and blue | |
But when we needed confidence | |
We always turned to you | |
And when they shot our leaders | |
Up against Kilmainham wall | |
You were there beside us | |
In that awful Easter dawn | |
Hey, big fellah where the hell are you now? | |
When we need you the most | |
Hey, big fellah c'mon | |
Tabhair dom do lamh | |
Back on the streets of Dublin | |
When we fought the black and tans | |
You were there beside us | |
A towerin' mighty man | |
And God help the informer | |
Or the hated English spy | |
By Jaysus, Mick, you'd crucify them | |
Without the blinkin' of an eye | |
Still you had a heart as soft as | |
The early mornin' dew | |
Every widow, whore and orphan | |
Could always turn to you | |
We beat them in the cities | |
And we whipped them in the streets | |
And the world hailed Michael Collins | |
Our commander and our chief | |
And they sent you off to London | |
To negotiate a deal | |
And to gain us a republic | |
United, boys, and real | |
But the women and the drink | |
Mick, they must have got to you | |
'Cause you came back with a country | |
divided up in two | |
We had to turn against you, Mick | |
There was nothin' we could do | |
'Cause we couldn't betray the republic | |
Like Arthur Griffith and you | |
We fought against each other | |
Two brothers steeped in blood | |
But I never doubted that your heart | |
Was broken in the flood | |
And though we had to shoot you down | |
In golden B× al na Blath | |
I always knew that Ireland lost | |
Her greatest son of all |
Mo chara is mo lao thu | |
Is aisling tri n allaibh | |
Do deineadh ar ir dom | |
IgCorcaigh go d anach | |
Ar leaba im aonar | |
I remember you back in the GPO | |
With Connolly and Clarke | |
Laughin' with McDermott | |
Through the bullets and the sparks | |
Always with the smart remark | |
Your eyes blazin' and blue | |
But when we needed confidence | |
We always turned to you | |
And when they shot our leaders | |
Up against Kilmainham wall | |
You were there beside us | |
In that awful Easter dawn | |
Hey, big fellah where the hell are you now? | |
When we need you the most | |
Hey, big fellah c' mon | |
Tabhair dom do lamh | |
Back on the streets of Dublin | |
When we fought the black and tans | |
You were there beside us | |
A towerin' mighty man | |
And God help the informer | |
Or the hated English spy | |
By Jaysus, Mick, you' d crucify them | |
Without the blinkin' of an eye | |
Still you had a heart as soft as | |
The early mornin' dew | |
Every widow, whore and orphan | |
Could always turn to you | |
We beat them in the cities | |
And we whipped them in the streets | |
And the world hailed Michael Collins | |
Our commander and our chief | |
And they sent you off to London | |
To negotiate a deal | |
And to gain us a republic | |
United, boys, and real | |
But the women and the drink | |
Mick, they must have got to you | |
' Cause you came back with a country | |
divided up in two | |
We had to turn against you, Mick | |
There was nothin' we could do | |
' Cause we couldn' t betray the republic | |
Like Arthur Griffith and you | |
We fought against each other | |
Two brothers steeped in blood | |
But I never doubted that your heart | |
Was broken in the flood | |
And though we had to shoot you down | |
In golden B al na Blath | |
I always knew that Ireland lost | |
Her greatest son of all |
Mo chara is mo lao thu | |
Is aisling tri n allaibh | |
Do deineadh ar ir dom | |
IgCorcaigh go d anach | |
Ar leaba im aonar | |
I remember you back in the GPO | |
With Connolly and Clarke | |
Laughin' with McDermott | |
Through the bullets and the sparks | |
Always with the smart remark | |
Your eyes blazin' and blue | |
But when we needed confidence | |
We always turned to you | |
And when they shot our leaders | |
Up against Kilmainham wall | |
You were there beside us | |
In that awful Easter dawn | |
Hey, big fellah where the hell are you now? | |
When we need you the most | |
Hey, big fellah c' mon | |
Tabhair dom do lamh | |
Back on the streets of Dublin | |
When we fought the black and tans | |
You were there beside us | |
A towerin' mighty man | |
And God help the informer | |
Or the hated English spy | |
By Jaysus, Mick, you' d crucify them | |
Without the blinkin' of an eye | |
Still you had a heart as soft as | |
The early mornin' dew | |
Every widow, whore and orphan | |
Could always turn to you | |
We beat them in the cities | |
And we whipped them in the streets | |
And the world hailed Michael Collins | |
Our commander and our chief | |
And they sent you off to London | |
To negotiate a deal | |
And to gain us a republic | |
United, boys, and real | |
But the women and the drink | |
Mick, they must have got to you | |
' Cause you came back with a country | |
divided up in two | |
We had to turn against you, Mick | |
There was nothin' we could do | |
' Cause we couldn' t betray the republic | |
Like Arthur Griffith and you | |
We fought against each other | |
Two brothers steeped in blood | |
But I never doubted that your heart | |
Was broken in the flood | |
And though we had to shoot you down | |
In golden B al na Blath | |
I always knew that Ireland lost | |
Her greatest son of all |