The Broad Black Brimmer-Brier

[ti:The Broad Black Brimmer] [ar:Brier] [al:The Songs That Shake the Barley - The Ultimate Rebel Collection] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]The Broad Black Brimmer - Brier [00:05.37]There's a uniform that's hanging [00:07.35]In what's known as Father's room [00:09.36]A uniform so simple in it's style [00:12.43] [00:13.37]It has no braid of gold or silk [00:15.92]No hat with feathered plumes [00:17.49]Yet Mother has preserved it all the while [00:20.56] [00:21.56]One day she made me try it on [00:23.57]A wish of mine for years [00:25.60]"In memory of your father Sean" she said [00:28.50] [00:29.66]And when I put the Sam Browne on [00:32.14]She was smiling with the tears [00:33.71]As she placed the broad black brimmer on my head [00:36.46] [00:37.25]It's just a broad black brimmer [00:39.79]With its ribbons frayed and torn [00:41.86]By the careless whisk of many a mountain breeze [00:45.07] [00:46.01]An old trench coat that's battle stained and worn [00:49.94]And breeches almost threadbare at the knees [00:53.54] [00:54.06]A Sam Browne belt with a buckle big and strong [00:58.08]A holster that's been empty many a day [01:01.15] [01:02.09]And when men claim Ireland's freedom [01:04.14]The one they'll choose to lead 'em [01:06.05]Will wear the broad black brimmer of the IRA [01:09.86] [01:13.11]It was the uniform been worn by my father years ago [01:16.72] [01:17.29]When he reached me mother's homestead on the run [01:20.08] [01:21.10]It was the uniform me father wore [01:23.58]In that little church below [01:25.34]When oul' Father Mac he blessed the pair as one [01:28.36] [01:29.04]And after Truce and Treaty and the parting of the ways [01:33.59]He wore it when he marched out with the rest [01:36.65] [01:37.66]And when they bore his body down the rugged heather braes [01:41.52]They placed the broad black brimmer on his breast [01:44.60] [01:45.26]It's just a broad black brimmer [01:47.82]With its ribbons frayed and torn [01:49.78]By the careless whisk of many a mountain breeze [01:53.25] [01:53.88]An old trench coat that's battle stained and worn [01:57.93]And breeches almost threadbare at the knees [02:01.23] [02:02.05]A Sam Browne belt with a buckle big and strong [02:05.99]A holster that's been empty many a day [02:09.12] [02:10.20]And when men claim Ireland's freedom [02:12.18]The one they'll choose to lead 'em [02:14.12]Will wear the broad black brimmer of the IRA [02:18.36]When men claim Ireland's freedom the one who'll choose [02:21.83]To lead them [02:22.47]Will wear the broad black brimmer of the IRA