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In the year of one thousand seven hundred and ninety eight |
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A sorrowful tale the truth unto you I’ll relate |
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Thirty-six heroes to the world they were left to be seen 36 |
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By a false information they were shot on Dunlavin Green. |
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Bad luck to you Saunders, for you did their lives betray. |
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You said a parade would be held on that very same day. |
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Drums they did rattle – our fifes they did sweetly play. |
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Surrounded we were and privately marched away. |
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Quite easy they led us like prisoners through the town |
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To be shot on the plain, we first were forced to kneel down. |
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Such grief and such sorrow were never before there seen |
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When the blood ran in streams down the dykes of Dunlavin Green. |
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There is young Matty Farrell who has plenty of cause to complain |
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Likewise the two Duffys who were shot down upon the plain |
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Young Andy Ryan, his mother distracted will run |
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For the loss of her darling, her only beloved son. |
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Some of our boys to the hills they are going away |
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Some of them are shot and more of them going to sea |
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Mickey Dwyer in the mountains to Saunders he owes a spleen |
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For the loss of his brothers who were shot on Dunlavin Green |
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Bad luck to you, Saunders, bad luck may you never shun! |
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May the widow’s curse melt you like the snow in noonday sun |
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The cries of the orphans their murmurs you cannot screen |
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For the loss of their fathers who were shot on Dunlavin Green |
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In the year of one thousand seven hundred and ninety eight |
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A sorrowful tale the truth unto you I’ll relate |
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Thirty-six heroes to the world they were left to be seen 36 |
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By a false information they were shot on Dunlavin Green |
