Key: B minor
Verse 1
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As down the glen one Easter
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morn to a city fair rode I
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There Armed lines of marching
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No fife did hum nor battle drum
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did sound it's dread tatoo
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rang out through the foggy dew
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Verse 2
they hung out the flag of war
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'Twas better to die 'neath an Irish
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And from the plains of Royal Meath
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While Britannia's Huns, with their long range guns sailed
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in through the foggy dew
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Verse 3
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'Twas Britannia bade our Wild Geese go
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that small nations might be free
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But their lonely graves are by Sulva's waves
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or the shore of the Great North Sea
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Oh, had they died by Pearse's side
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or fought with Cathal Brugha
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sleep 'neath the shroud of the foggy dew
Verse 4
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and the requiem bell rang mournfully and clear
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For those who died that Eastertide
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in the springing of the year
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And the world did gaze, in deep amaze,
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at those fearless men, but few
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Who bore the fight that freedom's light might shine through the foggy
Interlude 1
dew
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Verse 5
my heart with grief was sore
For I parted then with valiant men
whom I never shall see more
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But to and fro in my dreams I go and
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I'd kneel and pray for you,
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For slavery fled, O glorious dead,
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When you fell in the foggy dew.
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