Foggy Dew-The Dubliners

[ti:Foggy Dew] [ar:The Dubliners] [al:Wild Rover - The Best Of] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Foggy Dew - The Dubliners [00:16.15]As down the glen one Easter morn [00:21.54] [00:22.44]To a city fair rode I [00:27.73] [00:28.34]There Armed lines of marching men [00:33.97] [00:34.79]In squadrons passed me by [00:38.48] [00:40.51]No fife did hum nor battle drum [00:46.00] [00:46.65]Did sound it's dread tattoo [00:49.83] [00:52.38]But the Angelus bell o'er the Liffey swell [00:57.79] [00:58.54]Rang out through the foggy dew [01:02.40] [01:04.28]Right proudly high over Dublin Town [01:10.45]They hung out the flag of war [01:14.21] [01:16.18]'Twas better to die 'neath an Irish sky [01:21.47] [01:22.14]Than at Sulva or Sud El Bar [01:26.27] [01:28.07]And from the plains of Royal Meath [01:33.30] [01:33.90]Strong men came hurrying through [01:37.93] [01:39.56]While Britannia's Huns with their long range guns [01:45.50]Sailed in through the foggy dew [01:49.32] [01:51.14]'Twas Britannia bade our Wild Geese go [01:57.05]That small nations might be free [02:00.70] [02:02.69]But their lonely graves are by Sulva's waves [02:08.71]Or the shore of the Great North Sea [02:12.36] [02:14.33]Oh had they died by Pearse's side [02:19.29] [02:19.92]Or fought with Cathal Brugha [02:23.60] [02:25.36]Their names we will keep where the fenians sleep [02:30.91]'Neath the shroud of the foggy dew [02:34.51] [02:36.33]But the bravest fell and the requiem bell [02:41.85]Rang mournfully and clear [02:45.48] [02:47.24]For those who died that Easter tide [02:52.70]In the springing of the year [02:56.06] [02:58.02]And the world did gaze in deep amaze [03:02.61] [03:03.27]At those fearless men but few [03:06.43] [03:08.43]Who bore the fight that freedom's light [03:13.70]Might shine through the foggy dew