God save Ireland
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God save Ireland
Timothy Daniel Sullivane
Arr. Merry Ploughboys

High upon the gallows tree
swung the noble hearted three
By the vengeful tyrant stricken in their bloom
But they met him face to face
with the courage of their race
And they went with souls undaunted to their doom

Chours:
God save Ireland, said the heros
God save Ireland, said they all
Whether on the scaffold high
Or the battlefield we die
Oh, what matter when for Ireland dear we fall

Climbed they up the rugged stair
rang their voices out in prayer
Then with England's fatal cord around them cast
Close behind the gallows tree
kissed like brothers lovingly
True to home and faith and freedom to the last

Chours

Never till the latest day shall
the memory pass away
Of the gallant lives thus given for our land
But on the cause must go,
'midst the joy and weal and woe
Till we make our Isle a nation free and grand

Chorus

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