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How many more must die now how many must we lose |
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Until the island people their own destiny can choose |
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From immortal Robert Emmet to Bobby Sands MP |
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Who was given thirty thousand votes while in captivity |
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He was a poet and a soldier he died courageously |
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And we gave him thirty thousand votes while in captivity |
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Thomas Ashe gave everything in 1917 1917 |
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The Lord Mayor of Cork McSwiney died for freedom to obtain |
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Never a one of all our dead died more courageously |
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Than young Bobby Sands from Twinbrook the people’s own MP |
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He was a poet and a soldier he died courageously |
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And we gave him thirty thousand votes while in captivity |
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No more he’ll hear the lark’s sweet notes upon the Ulster air |
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Or gaze upon the snowflake to calm his deep despair |
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Before he went on hunger strike young Bobby did compose |
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The Rhythm of Time, The Weeping Wind and The Sleeping Rose 《 |
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He was a poet and a soldier he died courageously |
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And we gave him thirty thousand votes while in captivity |
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Forever we’ll remember him that man who died in pain |
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That his country north and south be united once again |
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To mourn him is to organise and build a movement strong |
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With ballot box and armalite and with music and with our songs |
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He was a poet and a soldier he died courageously |
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And we gave him thirty thousand votes while in captivity |
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Oh the poet and the soldier he died courageously |
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And we gave him 30, 000 votes while in captivity |
