dominic behan - the merry ploughboy (rebellion) lyrics
[verse 1]
oh i am a merry ploughboy and i plough the fields by day
until the lightning flashed across my mind that i should run away
i’ve always hated slavery since the day that i was born
so i’m off to join the ira and i’m off tomorrow morn
[chorus]
i’m off to dublin in the green, in the green
where the helmets glitter in the sun
where the rifles flash and the thunders crash
to the echo of a thompson gun
[verse 2]
i leave behind my old grey coat, i leave behind my plough
i leave behind my horse and yoke for no more i’ll need them now
i’ll takе my short revolver and my bandolier of lеad
and live or die, i can but try, to avenge my country’s dead
[chorus]
so i’m off to dublin in the green, in the green
where the helmets glitter in the sun
where the rifles flash and the thunders crash
to the echo of a thompson gun
[verse 3]
but there’s one i leave behind me, she’s the cailín i adore
i wonder will she think of me, when she hears them cannons roar
but when the war is over, and dear old ireland’s free
i’ll take her to the church to wed, and a rebel’s wife she’ll be
[chorus]
so i’m off to dublin in the green, in the green
where the helmets glitter in the sun
where the rifles flash and the thunders crash
to the echo of a thompson gun
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