The Patriot Game-The Irish Ramblers

[ti:The Patriot Game] [ar:The Irish Ramblers] [al:Die Komplette Irische Nationalhymne] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]The Patriot Game - The Irish Ramblers [00:09.09]Come all ye young rebels and list while I sing [00:16.61] [00:17.49]For the love of one's country is a terrible thing [00:25.12] [00:25.90]It banishes fear with the speed of a flame [00:33.30] [00:34.30]And it makes us all part of the patriot game [00:41.49] [00:42.91]My name is O'Hanlon and I've just turned sixteen [00:50.40] [00:51.17]My home is in Monaghan that's where I was weaned [00:58.96] [00:59.72]I learned all my life cruel England's to blame [01:07.30] [01:08.09]So now I am part of the patriot game [01:15.63] [01:16.74]They told me how Connolly was shot in his chair [01:24.01] [01:24.94]His wounds from the fighting all bloody and bare [01:32.47] [01:33.55]His fine body twisted all battered and lame [01:41.09] [01:41.94]They soon made me part of the patriot game [01:49.21] [01:50.52]It's nearly two years since I wandered away [01:58.07] [01:58.97]With the local battalion of the bold IRA [02:06.58] [02:07.16]For I read of our heroes and wanted the same [02:14.96] [02:15.62]To play out my part in the patriot game [02:22.94] [02:24.33]This Ireland of ours has too long been half free [02:31.93] [02:32.72]Six counties lie under John Bull's tyranny [02:40.97]And most of our leaders are greatly to blame [02:48.80] [02:49.56]For feeling the part in the patriot game [02:56.91] [02:58.27]And now as I lie here my body all holes [03:05.63] [03:06.36]I think of those traitors who bargained in souls [03:14.25] [03:15.00]And I wish that my rifle had given the same [03:22.76] [03:23.46]To those quislings who sold out the patriot game [03:30.64] [03:32.16]Come all ye young rebels and list while I sing [03:39.44] [03:40.16]For the love of one's country is a beautiful thing [03:48.30] [03:48.84]It banishes fear with the speed of a flame [03:56.58] [03:57.39]And it makes us all part of the patriot game