Sean South From Garryowen Lyrics

Sean South From Garryowen lyrics

Sad are the homes round Garryowen 

Since they lost their joy and pride


And the banshee cry links every vale

Around the Shannon side that
city of the ancient walls 

the broken treaty stone, undying fame
surrounds your name, Sean South from Garryowen 



T'was on a dreary
New Years Eve

As the shades of night came down 

A lorry load of
volunteers approached the border town 

There were men from Dublin and
from Cork, Fermanagh and Tyrone 

And the leader was a Limerick man - Sean
South from Garryowen 



As they moved along the street up to the
barracks door 

They scorned the danger they might face 

Their fate
that lay instore

They were fighting for old Ireland to claim their very
own

And the foremost of that gallant band 

Was South from Garryowen




But the seargent spied their daring plan 

He spied them
trough the door 

The Sten guns and the rifles a hail of death did
pour

And when that awful night had passed 

Two men lay cold a 
stone 

There was one from near the border and one from Garryowen 



No more wil he hear the seagull's cry 

Over the murmurring
Shannon tide 

For he fell beneath a Northern sky brave Hanlon by his side


They have gone to join that gallant band 

Of Plunkett, Pearse and
Tone 

A martyr for old Ireland 

Sean South from Garryowen