The Wolfe Tones - Sean South

      [Verse 1]
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It was on a dreary new year's eve,      
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as the shades of night came down.
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A lorry load of volunteers, 
        Am      F      G
approached the border town.
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There were men from Dublin and from Cork,
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Fermanagh and Tyrone.
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And their leader was a Limerick man, 
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Sean South from Garryowen.

[Verse 2]
 C
And as they moved along the streets, 
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up to the barrack door.
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They scorned the danger they might face,
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the fate that lay in store.
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They were fighting for old Ireland’s cause,
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to claim their very own.
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And the foremost of that gallant band,
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was South from Garryowen.

[Verse 3]
C
But the sergeant foiled their daring plan,
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he spied them through the door.
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Then the Sten guns and the rif-les 
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a hail of death did pour.
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And when that awful night was past,
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two men lay as cold as stone.
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There was one from near the border,
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and one from Garryowen.

[Verse 4]
C
No more he'll hear the seagull cry, 
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or the murmuring Shannon tide.
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For he fell beneath a Northern sky,
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brave Hanlon by his side.
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They have gone to join that gallant band,
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of Plunkett, Pearse and Tone.
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A martyr for old Ireland,
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Sean South from Garryowen.