Kelly The Boy From Killanne-The Clancy Brothers & Tommy Makem

[ti:Kelly The Boy From Killanne] [ar:The Clancy Brothers & Tommy Makem] [al:Irish Gold] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Kelly The Boy From Killanne - The Clancy Brothers & Tommy Makem [00:04.94]What's the news [00:06.00]What's the news [00:07.06]O my bold Shelmalier [00:09.23]With your long-barrelled gun of the sea [00:13.58]Say what wind from the sun blows his messenger here [00:17.85]With a hymn of the dawn for the free [00:21.44] [00:22.14]Goodly news goodly news do I bring youth of Forth [00:26.25]Goodly news shell you here Bargy man [00:29.78] [00:30.45]For the boys march at dawn from the south to the north [00:34.66]Led by Kelly the boy from Killanne [00:37.91] [00:39.00]Tell me who is the giant with the gold curling hair [00:43.08]He who rides at the head of your band [00:46.64] [00:47.28]Seven feet is his height with some inches to spare [00:51.50]And he looks like a king in command [00:54.78] [00:55.65]Oh me boys that's the pride of the bold Shelmaliers [00:59.78]Mongst our greatest of heroes a man [01:03.40] [01:04.05]Fling your beavers aloft and give three rousing cheers [01:08.24]For John Kelly the boy from Killanne [01:11.56] [01:12.54]Enniscorthy's in flames and old Wexford is won [01:16.67]And the Barrow tomorrow we will cross [01:20.05] [01:20.95]On a hill o'er the town we have planted a gun [01:25.13]That will batter the gateways to Ross [01:28.37] [01:29.28]All the Forth men and Bargy men will march over the heath [01:33.45]With brave Harvey to lead in the van [01:36.83] [01:37.71]But the foremost of all in that grim gap of death [01:41.79]Will be Kelly the boy from Killanne [01:45.17] [01:46.96]But the gold sun of freedom grew darkened at Ross [01:52.83] [01:53.44]And it set by the Slaney's red waves [01:58.88] [01:59.60]And poor Wexford stript naked hung high on a cross [02:04.99] [02:05.55]With her heart pierced by traitors and slaves [02:10.38] [02:11.48]Glory o glory o to her brave sons who died [02:16.94] [02:17.50]For the cause of long-down-trodden man [02:22.21]Glory o to mount Leinster's own darling and pride [02:26.72]Dauntless Kelly the boy from Killanne