Key: D major
Verse 1
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A
D
What's the news? What's
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D
the news? O my bold Shelmalier,
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A
Goodly news do I bring, Bargy man!
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G
For the boys march at dawn
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Em
from the south to the north
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A
Led by Kelly, the boy from Killanne!"
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Tell
Verse 2
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D
A
D
He who rides at the head of the band?
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D
And he looks like a king in command!
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D
"Oh, me boys, that's the pride of the bold Shelmaliers,
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A
"Mongst our greatest of heroes, a man!
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G
Fling your beavers aloft and
For John Kelly,
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D
the boy from Killanne!"
Verse 3
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Bm
and old Wexford is won,
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A
D
And the Barrow tomorrow we cross.
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That will batter the gateways to Ross!
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With brave Harvey to lead on the van;
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But the foremost of all in
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Will be Kelly, the boy from Killanne!
Verse 4
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G
But the gold sun of freedom
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Bm
grew darkened at Ross
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A
And it set by the Slaney's red
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Bm
hung high on a cross
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A
With her heart pierced by
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Glory O! Glory O! to her
brave sons who died
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Glory O! to mount Leinster's own
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Dauntless Kelly, the boy from Killanne!
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