Never Beat the Irish (Part. 2, The Story Leading up to 1916)-The Wolfe Tones

[ti:Never Beat the Irish (Part. 2, The Story Leading up to 1916)] [ar:The Wolfe Tones] [al:1916 Remembered. The Easter Rising] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Never Beat the Irish (Part. 2, The Story Leading up to 1916) - The Wolfe Tones [00:28.35]At the siege of limerick [00:29.62]Patrick sarsfield won the day [00:31.75] [00:32.44]But they irish they were cheated [00:34.36]When his army went away [00:36.27] [00:36.84]Queen ann and her successors [00:38.44]Forced on us those penal laws [00:40.51] [00:41.04]Denying the rights and liberty [00:43.36]Of religion lands and property [00:45.99]Murder plunder faugh a balla clear the way [00:48.23]Cheating stealing diddle idle de [00:50.32]Ducking diving faugh a bala clear the way [00:52.67]Diddlily I dle do di diddly idle de [00:54.53] [00:59.18]Then came the three mad georges [01:00.87]And they had us nearly fooled [01:02.93] [01:03.52]They couldn't speak the lingo [01:05.67]Of the countries that they ruled [01:07.41] [01:07.98]Puppets of the ascendancy they kept the irish down [01:12.37]And the rebels and the whiteboys had [01:14.73]Their armies on the run [01:16.61]And you'll never beat the irish [01:19.93] [01:20.98]No matter what you do [01:23.85] [01:25.44]You can put us down and keep us out [01:29.22] [01:30.19]But we'll come back again [01:33.97]You know we are the fighting irish [01:37.75] [01:38.74]And we'll fight until the end [01:42.25] [01:43.03]You know you should have known [01:44.93] [01:45.69]You'll never beat the irish [01:49.45] [02:21.39]Then famine queen victoria [02:22.83]Came to rule us by and by [02:25.49]She was on the throne so bloody long [02:28.08]We thought she'd never die [02:29.92]She presided over hunger [02:32.00]Famine poverty and disease [02:34.10] [02:34.67]She drove the people from their home [02:36.90]To their deaths or to land beyond the seas [02:39.34]Murder plunder faugh a balla clear the way [02:41.47]Cheating stealing diddle idle de [02:43.58]Ducking diving faugh a bala clear the way [02:46.03]Diddlily I dle do di diddly idle de [02:47.87] [02:52.12]All across the 19 th century we fought oppression [02:55.04]With great zeal [02:56.21] [02:56.83]O'connell spoke his blarney [02:58.52]For emancipation and repeal [03:00.79] [03:01.32]Young ireland and the fenians [03:03.28]Tried with dynamite and gun [03:05.45]Parnell the men of sixteen died then michael collins [03:08.85]Had them on the run [03:10.11]You'll never beat the irish [03:13.22] [03:14.35]No matter what you do [03:17.66] [03:18.87]You can and put us down and keep us out [03:22.53] [03:23.51]But we'll come back again [03:26.85] [03:27.41]You know [03:28.02]We are the fighting irish [03:31.03] [03:32.13]And we'll fight untill the end [03:35.79] [03:36.34]You know you should've known [03:38.11] [03:39.00]You'd never beat the irish [03:42.70] [03:43.86]Murder plunder faugh a balla clear the way [03:45.90]Cheating stealing diddle idle de [03:47.97]Ducking diving faugh a bala clear the way [03:50.36]Diddlily I dle do di diddly idle de [03:52.55]Murder plunder faugh a balla clear the way [03:54.83]Cheating stealing diddle idle de [03:56.84]Ducking diving faugh a bala clear the way [03:59.20]Diddlily I dle do di diddly idle de