Sean South Of Garryowen-The Wolfe Tones

[ti:Sean South of Garryowen] [ar:The Wolfe Tones] [al:At Their Very Best Live] [offset:0] [00:00.76]Sean South Of Garryowen - The Wolfe Tones [00:58.40]It was on a dreary new years day [01:02.20]when the shade of night came down [01:06.06]And a lorry load of volunteers [01:09.93]approached the border town [01:13.50]There were men from dublin and from cork, [01:17.54]fermanagh and tyrone [01:20.98]But the leader was a limerick man sean south of garryowen [01:31.01]And as they moved along the street [01:34.83]up to the barracks door [01:38.57]They scorned the danger they might [01:41.65]meet the fate that lay in store [01:46.11]They were fighting for old ireland to make their very own [01:53.83]And the foremost of this gallant band [01:57.70]was south of garryowen [02:09.10]But the seargant spoiled their daring [02:12.16]plans he spied them through the door [02:16.81]And with sten guns and the rifles a [02:20.90]hail of death did pour [02:24.58]And when that awful night was past [02:28.28]two men lay cold as stone [02:32.12]There was one from near the border [02:35.91]and one from garryowen [02:39.66]No more he'll hear the seagull [02:43.14]cry o'er the murmuring shannon tide [02:47.16]For he fell beneath a northern [02:50.51]sky brave o'hanlon by his side [02:54.96]He has gone to join that gallant [02:58.39]band of plunkett pearse and tone [03:02.73]Another martyr for old ireland sean [03:06.70]south from garryowen. [03:08.56]