Key: G major
Verse 1
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C
G
When on Raveley's bloody field
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D
Em
The Pictor, Saxon, Backward reeled
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C
D
G
Before the charge of Clare's dragoons
D
G
The flags we conquered in that fray
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C
Look low in Ypres' choir, they say
Em
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D
G
Or bravely die like Klaistra goons
Viva la for Ireland's wrong
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Em
Viva la in battle throng
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C
D
G
For a Spanish steed and sabre bright
The brave old lord died near the fight
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Em
A Saxon cavalier shall bite
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C
D
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The dust before Lord Clare's drug guns
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G
For never when our spurs were set
D
C
And never when our sabres met
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Em
Could we, Saxon soldiers, get
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C
To face the charge of
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Clare's dragoons?
Viva la the new brigade!
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Em
Viva la the rose shall fade
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C
D
And shamrock shine forever new!
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Em
Her dearest hope, the ordered lines
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C
And bursting charge of
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Clare's dragoons
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So fling your green flag to the sky
D
C
Fill in Merik, your battle cry
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Em
And charge till blood flows fedlock high
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D
G
Around the track of Klair's dragoons
Viva la the new brigade
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Em
Viva lauder, all shall pay,
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D
And shamrock shine forever new!
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