The Wexford Massacre-Grehan Sisters

[ti:The Wexford Massacre] [ar:Grehan Sisters] [al:Irish Folk Favourites] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]The Wexford Massacre - Grehan Sisters [00:18.02]They knelt around the cross divine [00:26.90] [00:27.49]The matron and the maid [00:35.01] [00:35.63]They bowed before redemption's sign [00:44.88]And fervently they prayed [00:52.07] [00:52.95]Three hundred fair and helpless ones [01:02.02]Whose crime was this alone [01:09.53] [01:10.08]Their valiant husbands sires and sons [01:19.15]Had battled for their own [01:25.95] [01:27.02]Had battled bravely but in vain [01:36.21]The saxon won the fight [01:43.74] [01:44.34]The irish corpses strewed the plain [01:53.22]Where valour slept with right [02:00.44] [02:01.07]And now that man of demon guilt [02:10.31]To fated wexford flew [02:17.53] [02:18.15]The red blood reeking on his hilt [02:26.48] [02:27.03]Of hearts to erin true [02:34.31] [02:35.10]He found them there the young the old [02:44.05]The maiden and the wife [02:51.84]Their guardians brave in death were called [03:00.75]Who dead fought them the strife [03:08.50]They prayed for mercy [03:13.01]God on high [03:17.42]Before thy cross they prayed [03:25.15]But ruthless cromwell bade them die [03:33.97]To glut the saxon blade [03:40.99] [03:42.03]Three hundred fell the stifled prayer [03:50.35] [03:50.91]Was quenched in women's blood [03:58.63]Nor youth nor age could move to spare [04:06.97] [04:07.48]From slaughter's crimson flood [04:14.73] [04:15.29]But nations keep a stern account [04:24.08]Of deeds that tyrants do [04:31.78]And guiltless blood to heaven will mount [04:40.00] [04:40.62]And heaven avenge it too