Key: C major
Intro 1
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Verse 1
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Oh,
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come all ye young rebels,
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en list what I have seen
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For the love of one's country
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is a terrible thing
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It banishes fear like the speed of a flame
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And it makes us all part of
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our patriot name
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I've just gone to sleep
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My home is in Monaghan,
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that's where I was weaned
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I've read all my life,
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how cruel England's
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And now I am part of our
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patriot's fleet
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was shot in his chair
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And the wounds from the fighting,
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still all bloody and bare
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His poor body twisted,
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all bent and all lame
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since I wandered away
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With the local battalion
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I'd read of those heroes,
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sure I wanted the same
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To play my own part in our daydreaming
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The
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But now as I lie here,
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with my body all worn
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I think of those traitors,
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and so I wish that my rifle
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might have given the same
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To the grizzlings who were so loud,
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our patriot brave
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For the love of one's country
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is a terrible thing
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It banishes fear with the speed of a flame
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And it makes us all part of our
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nature
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