Key: A minor
Verse 1
Am
G
Kelly, The Boy from
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C
Killanne
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C
What's the news? What's the
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C
Am
blows his messenger here
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G
With a hymn of the dawn
from the south to the north
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C
Led by Kelly, the boy from Killanne!"
Tell me who is the giant with the
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Am
gold curling hair,
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C
He who rides at the head of the band?
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G
C
Am
with some inches to spare
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G
And he looks like a king
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F
"Oh, me boys, that's the pride of
"Mongst our greatest of heroes,
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Fling your beavers aloft and give
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For John Kelly, the boy from Kil
lanne!"
Enniscorthy's in flames,
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and old Wexford is won,
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And the Barrow tomorrow we cross.
On a hill o'er the town we have
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That will batter the gateways to Ross!
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But the foremost of all in that
grim gap of death
Will be Kelly,
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the boy from Killanne!
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Am
grew darkened at Ross
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C
An d it set by the Slaney's red waves;
And poor Wexford, stript naked,
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traitors and slaves!
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Glory O! Glory O! to her brave
sons who died
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down- trodden man!
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own darling and pride:
Recorded by Clancys, Patrick Galvin
Filename[ KELLYKIL
Play.exe KELLYKIL
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