Padraig Pearse Lyrics

Padraig Pearse lyrics

In Dublin town in nineteen sixteen a flame of freedom did arise.

A group
of men with determination caught an empire by surprise

Through the
streets our men were marching

They rallied with their hopes and fears

And the Enda boys came searching for their leader Padraig Pearse.

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The poet and the Irish rebel a Gaelic scholar and a
visionary

We gave to him no fitting tribute

When Ireland's at peace
only that can be

When Ireland a nation, united and free.

On Easter
morn he faced the nation from the steps of the G.P.O.

And read aloud the
proclamation, the seed of nationhood to sow.

But soon the word had spread
to London of an insurrection there at hand

And the deeds of Padraic Pearse
was set about to free his land.

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For five long days the
battle rages, for five long nights the battle wore

We will watch as
Dublin City blazes and see our men fall through the floor

No Ireland's
proud of her effort for her cause we fought with pride

But to save more
life and to save our city, we make our peace with McFainis cried.

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Kilmainham Jail in 1916, they brought young Pearse

to his death
cell and they tried him as a traitor to shoot this man who dared to rebel

He only tried to free his country of the shackles of 800 years.

When
dawn did break on that May morning they shot our Leader Padraic Pearse.

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