Key: Eb major
Intro 1
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Fast on the glen, one East
Verse 1
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er morn,
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to a city fair rode I.
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There on red lines of marching men,
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No fife did hum, no battle drum,
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did sound its loud tattoo.
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But the unjealous
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rang out through the foggy dew.
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Right proudly high o 'er Dublin town,
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they hung out the flat of war.
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T 'was bet ter to die neath an Irish sky
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than at Suva or Sudalbar.
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And from the plains of Royal Meath,
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with their long -range guns
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sailed in through the foggy
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dew.
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T 'was Britannia,
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fade our wild geese go,
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that small nation's might be free.
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But their lonely graves are by
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o 'er the shore of the great North Sea.
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Oh, had they died by Pierce's side,
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or fought with Cuthelbrew,
Their names we will keep
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Neath the shroud of a foggy dew.
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But the bravest fell,
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for those who died that Eastertide in the
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springing in of the year.
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that freedom's light might shine
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through the foggy dew.
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and my heart with grief was sore.
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whom I never shall see more.
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And I kneel and pray for you,
For slavery fed,
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In the foggy dew
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