Roddy McCorley-The Clancy Brothers

[ti:Roddy McCorley] [ar:The Clancy Brothers] [al:Vanguard Visionaries] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Roddy McCorley - The Clancy Brothers [00:55.45]O see the fleet-foot host of men [01:00.08]Who speed with faces warm [01:03.95]From farmstead and from fishers' cot [01:08.70]Along the banks of Ban; [01:12.52]They come with vengeance in their eyes [01:17.03]Too late Too late are they [01:20.97]For young Roddy McCorley goes to die [01:25.62]On the bridge of Toom today [01:29.81]Up the narrow street he stepped [01:33.95]Smiling proud and young [01:37.95]About the hemp-rope on his neck [01:42.20]The golden ringlets clung; [01:46.14]There's near a tear in his blue eyes [01:50.70]For glad and brave are they [01:54.33]As young Roddy McCorley goes to die [01:58.64]On the bridge of Toom today [02:03.14]When he last trod this street [02:07.20]His shining pike in hand [02:10.81]Behind him marched in grim array [02:15.39]A stalwart earnest band [02:19.33]Antrim town Antrim town [02:23.21]He led them to the fray [02:26.95]And young Roddy McCorley goes to die [02:31.60]On the bridge of Toom today [02:35.03]There's never a one of all your dead [02:39.03]More bravely died in fray [02:42.97]Than he who marches to his fate [02:47.52]On the bridge of Toom today; [02:51.05]True to the last True to the last [02:54.99]He treads the upwards way [02:58.86]And young Roddy McCorley goes to die [03:03.39]On the bridge of Toom today