The Patriot Game-The Dubliners

[ti:The Patriot Game] [ar:The Dubliners] [al:The Dubliners - The Definitive Transatlantic Collection] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.25]The Patriot Game - The Dubliners [00:00.95]Written by：Dominic Behan [00:01.33] [00:13.06]Come all ye young rebels and list while I sing [00:21.42] [00:22.21]For the love of one's country is a terrible thing [00:31.47] [00:32.12]It banishes fear with the speed of a flame [00:41.54]And it makes you a part of the patriot game [00:49.46] [00:51.10]My name is o'hanlon and I've just turned sixteen [00:59.91] [01:00.61]My home is in monaghan where I was weaned [01:09.55] [01:10.07]I learned all my life cruel England to blame [01:19.75] [01:20.26]So now I am part of the patriot game [01:28.45] [01:29.82]It's nearly two years since I wandered away [01:38.26] [01:39.08]With the local battalion of the bold ira [01:47.69] [01:48.65]I've read of our heroes and I wanted the same [01:58.18]For the play out my part in the patriot game [02:07.10] [02:07.74]This Ireland of ours has too long been half free [02:16.92] [02:17.47]Six counties lie under John bull's tyranny [02:26.83]And most de valera is greatly to blame [02:35.88] [02:36.43]For shirking his part in the patriot game [02:44.64] [02:46.30]They told me how connolly was shot in his chair [02:54.86] [02:55.52]His wounds from the fighting all bloody and bare [03:04.43] [03:05.09]His fine body twisted all battered and lame [03:14.31] [03:14.90]They soon made me part of the patriot game [03:22.83] [03:24.63]Now I am doing here my body all holes [03:33.74]I think of those traitors who bargained in souls [03:42.77] [03:43.38]And I wish that my rifle had given the same [03:52.72]To those quislings who sold out the patriot game