Ye brave young sons of Erin's Isle I hope you will attend awhile To the wrongs of dear old Ireland I'm going to relate 'Twas black and cursed was the day When our Parliament was taken away And all our grief and suffering commences from that day For our hardy sons and daughters fair To other countries must repair And leave their native land behind in sorrow to deplore For to seek employment they must roam Far, far away from their native home From that sore, oppressed island that they call the Shamrock Shore.
Now, Ireland is with plenty blessed But the people, they are sore oppressed All by those cursed tyrants we are forced for to obey Some haughty landlords for to please Our houses and our lands they'll seize To put fifty farms into one and take us all away Regardless of the widow's cries The mother's tears and the orphan's sighs In thousands we are driven from home which grieves our hearts full sore We are fraught by famine and disease We emigrated across the seas From that sore, opressed island that they called the Shamrock Shore
Our sustenance all taken away The tithes and taxes for to pay To support that law-protected church to which they do adhere And our Irish gentry, well you know To other countries they do go And the money from old Ireland they squander here and there But if those squires would stay at home And not to other countries roam But to build mills and factories here to employ the labouring poor For if we had trade and commerce there To me no nation could compare To that sore, oppressed island that they call the Shamrock Shore
John Bull, he boasts, he laughs with scorn And he says that Irishman is born To be always discontented for at home he cannot agree But we'll banish discord from our land And in harmony like brothers stand To demand the rights of Ireland let us all united be And our Parliament in College Green For to assemble, ‘twill be seen And happy days in Erin's isle we soon will have once more And dear old Ireland soon will be A great and glorious country And peace and blessings soon will smile all round the Shamrock ShoreTeksty umieszczone na naszej stronie są własnością wytwórni, wykonawców, osób mających do nich prawa.
