Misc Traditional – Irish Soldier Laddie (Guitar)

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'Twas a morning in July I was walking to Tipperary

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When I heard a battle cry from the mountains overhead

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As I looked up in the sky, saw an Irish soldier laddie.

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He looked at me right fearless and he said:

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Will you stand in the band like a true Irishman

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And go to fight the forces of the crown

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Will you march with O'Neill to an Irish battlefield,

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For tonight we're going to free old Wexford town

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Said I to that soldier lad, would you take me to your Captain

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It would be my pride and joy for to march with you today

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My young brother fell at Cork and my son at Enniscorthy

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To the noble Captain I did say:

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I will stand in the band like a true Irishman

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And go to fight the forces of the crown

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I will march with O'Neill to an Irish battlefield,

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For tonight we're going to free old Wexford town

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As we marched back again in the shadow of the evening

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With our banners flying low to the memory of the dead

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Oh we came back to our homes, but without our soldier laddie

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But I still can hear those brave words that he said:

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I will stand in the band like a true Irishman

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And go to fight the forces of the crown

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I will march with O'Neill to an Irish battlefield,

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For tonight we're going to free old Wexford town

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Will you stand in the band like a true Irishman

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And go to fight the forces of the crown

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Will you march with O'Neill to an Irish battlefield,

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For tonight we're going to free old Wexford town