Grace-Jim McCann

[00:13.54]As we gather in the chapel here in old Kilmainham Jail [00:23.14]I think about these past few weeks oh will they say we've failed [00:32.50]From our school days they have told us we must yearn for liberty [00:42.25]Yet all I want in this dark place is to have you here with me [00:54.21]Oh Grace just hold me in your arms and let this moment linger [01:03.87]They'll take me out at dawn and I will die [01:13.32]With all my love I place this wedding ring upon your finger [01:22.95]There won't be time to share our love for we must say goodbye [01:35.06]Now I know it's hard for you my love to ever understand [01:44.56]The love I bare for these brave men the love for my dear land [01:54.35]But when Pádraic called me to his side down in the GPO [02:03.98]I had to leave my own sick bed to him I had to go [02:15.88]Oh Grace just hold me in your arms and let this moment linger [02:25.59]They'll take me out at dawn and I will die [02:35.05]With all my love I'll place this wedding ring upon your finger [02:44.72]There won't be time to share our love for we must say goodbye [02:56.74]Now as the dawn is breaking my heart is breaking too [03:06.35]On this May morn as I walk out my thoughts will be of you [03:15.89]And I'll write some words upon the wall so everyone will know [03:25.55]I loved so much that I could see his blood upon the rose [03:37.35]Oh Grace just hold me in your arms and let this moment linger [03:46.99]They'll take me out at dawn and I will die [03:56.51]With all my love I'll place this wedding ring upon your finger [04:06.19]There won't be time to share our love for we must say goodbye [04:18.10]There won't be time to share our love so we must say goodbye [04:30.15]