Smashing Of The Van-Chumbawamba

[ti:Smashing Of The Van] [ar:Chumbawamba] [al:English Rebel Songs] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Smashing Of The Van - Chumbawamba [00:01.27]Attend you gallant Irishmen [00:03.53]And listen for a while [00:05.71]I'll sing to you the praises of [00:08.12]The sons of Erin's Isle [00:10.53]It's of those gallant heroes [00:12.73]Who voluntarily ran [00:14.94]To release two Irish shamrocks [00:16.96]From an English prison van [00:19.67]Hurrah My lads for freedom [00:22.00]Let's all join heart and hand [00:24.11]May the Lord have mercy on the boys [00:26.76]That helped to smash the van [00:28.95]On the eighteenth of September [00:31.30]It was in that dreadful year [00:33.52]When sorrow and excitement ran [00:36.09]Throughout all Lancashire [00:38.34]At a gathering of the Irish boys [00:40.72]They volunteered each man [00:42.78]To release those Irish prisoners [00:45.32]Out of the prison van [00:47.54]Hurrah My lads for freedom [00:49.84]Let's all join heart and hand [00:51.98]May the Lord have mercy on the boys [00:54.55]That helped to smash the van [00:56.71]In Manchester one morning [00:59.26]Those heroes did agree [01:01.56]Their leaders Kelly and Deasy [01:03.92]Should have their liberty [01:06.21]They drank a health to Ireland [01:08.60]And soon made up a plan [01:10.72]To meet the prisoners on the road [01:13.22]And take and smash the van [01:15.34]Hurrah My lads for freedom [01:17.94]Let's all join heart and hand [01:20.13]May the Lord have mercy on the boys [01:22.70]That helped to smash the van [01:24.89]With courage bold those heroes [01:27.06]Went and soon the van did stop [01:29.46]They cleared the guards from back [01:31.38]And front and then smashed in the top [01:34.09]But in blowing open of the lock [01:36.56]They chanced to kill a man [01:38.57]So three men must die on [01:40.20]The scaffold high for smashing of the van [01:43.51]Hurrah My lads for freedom [01:45.92]Let's all join heart and hand [01:48.01]May the Lord have mercy on the boys [01:50.72]That helped to smash the van [01:53.03]So now kind friends I will conclude [01:55.48]I think it would be right [01:57.67]That all true hearted Irish men [02:00.21]Together should unite [02:02.47]Together should sympathise my friends [02:04.84]And do the best we can [02:06.79]To keep the memories evergreen of [02:09.60]The boys that smashed the van [02:11.78]Hurrah My lads for freedom [02:14.10]Let's all join heart and hand [02:16.12]May the Lord have mercy on the boys [02:18.86]That helped to smash the van [02:21.10]Hurrah