Young Dubliners - With All Due Respect - Foggy Dew video free download


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Duration: 03:13
Uploaded: 2013/12/11

TWAS DOWN THE GLEN ONE EASTER MORN TO A CITY FAIR RODE I

THOSE ARMOURED LINES OF MARCHING MEN

IN SQUADRONS PASSED ME BY

NO PIPE DID HUM , NO BATTLE DRUM DID SOUND ITS DREAD TATOO

BUT THE ANGELAS BELLS O'ER THE LIFFEY SWELL

RANG OUT O'ER THE FOGGY DEW

RIGHT PROUDLY HIGH OVER DUBLIN TOWN

THEY HUNG OUT THE FLAG OF WAR

TWAS BETTER TO DIE NEATH AN IRISH SKY

THEN AT SUVLA OR SUD EL BAR

AND FROM THE PLAINS OF ROYAL MEATH

STRONG MAN CAME HURRYING THROUGH

WHILE BRITANNIAS HUNS WITH THEIR LONG RANGE GUNS

SAILED OUT O'RE THE FOGGY DEW

TWAS ENGLAND BADE OUR WILD GEESE FLY

THAT SMALL NATIONS MIGHT BE FREE

BUT THEIR LONELY GRAVES ARE BY SUVAS WAVES

ON THE FRINGE OF THE GREAT NORTH SEA

OH HAD THEY DIED BY PEARCES SIDE

OR FOUGHT WITH CATHAL BRUGH

THEIR NAMES WE WOULD KEEP

WHERE THE FENIANS SLEEP

NEATH THE SHROWD OF THE FOGGY DEW

BUT THE BRAVEST FELL AS THE REQUEIM BELL

RANG MORNFULLY AND CLEAR

FOR THOSE WHO DIED THAT EASTER TIDE

IN THE SPRING TIME OF THE YEAR

AND THE WORLD DID GAZE WITH DEEP AMAZE

AT THOSE FEARLESS MEN BUT FEW

WHO BORE THE FIGHT SO THAT FREEDOMS LIGHT

MIGHT SHINE THROUGH THE FOGGY DEW

WHO BORE THE FIGHT SO THAT FREEDOMS LIGHT

MIGHT SHINE THROUGH THE FOGGY DEW

(Got these from the main site, they were all in caps)

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