Karan Casey - Dunlavin Green

      Karan Casey - Dunlavin Green


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[Intro]
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[Verse 1]
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In the year of one thousand seven hundred and ninety-eight
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A sorrowful tale, the truth unto you I'll relate
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Thirty-six heroes, to the world they were left to be seen
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By a false information, were shot on Dunlavin Green

[Verse 2]
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Bad luck to you, Saunders, for you did their lives betray
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You said a parade would be held on that very same day
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Our drums, they did rattle, our fifes, they did sweetly play
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Surrounded we were and privately marched away

[Verse 3]
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Quite easy they led us like prisoners through the town
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To be shot on the plain, we first were forced to kneel down
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Such grief and such sorrow were never before there seen
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When the blood ran in the streams down the dykes of Dunlavin Green

[Verse 4]
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There is young Matty Farrell, who has plenty of cause to complain
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Likewise the two Duffys, who were shot down upon the plain
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Young Andy Ryan, his mother distracted, will run
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For the loss of her darling, her only beloved son

[Verse 5]
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Some of our boys to the hills, they are going away
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Some of them shot and more of them going to stay
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Michael Dwyer in the mountains to Saunders, he owes a spleen
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For loss of his brothers who were shot on Dunlavin Green

[Verse 6]
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Bad luck to you, Saunders, bad luck may you never shun
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May the widow's curse melt you like snow in the noonday sun
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Cries of the orphans, their murmurs you cannot screen
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For the loss of their fathers who were shot on Dunlavin Green

[Verse 7]
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In the year of one thousand seven hundred and ninety-eight
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A sorrowful tale, the truth unto you I'll relate
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Thirty-six heroes, to the world they were left to be seen
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By a false information, were shot on Dunlavin Green