Dunlavin Green (Song)-Michael Cooney

[ti:Dunlavin Green (Song)] [ar:Michael Cooney] [al:Happy To Meet, Sorry To Part] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.36]Dunlavin Green (Song) - Michael Cooney [00:02.10]In the year of one thousand seven hundred and ninety-eight [00:10.23]A sorrowful tale to you I'll relate [00:17.87]Of thirty-six heroes to the world they were left to be seen [00:26.80]By false information were shot on Dunlavin Green [00:37.09]Bad luck to you Saunders [00:39.52]It was you who that live with betray [00:44.43]For you said a parade would be held on that very day [00:52.42]The drums they did rattle and the fifes they did sweetly play [01:02.92]Surrounded we were and quietly marched away [01:11.83]Quite easily prisoners they led us through the town [01:20.08]To be shot on the plain [01:22.72]We then were forced to lie down [01:27.81]Such grief and such sorrow before their [01:34.22]With never was seen [01:38.52]When the blood ran in streams down [01:42.65]The dykes of Dunlavin Green [01:50.34]There is young Andy Ryan he has plenty of 'cause to complain [01:58.77]Likewise the two Duffy's who were shot down on the plain [02:07.02]And young Mattie Farrell whose mother distracted will run [02:16.58]For the loss of darling the loss of her eldest son [02:28.02]Bad luck to you Saunders bad luck may you never shun [02:34.65]That the widow's curse might melt you [02:37.42]Like and love the snow in the sun [02:42.72]And the murmurs of the orphans [02:47.21]Whose murmurs you never can sheen [02:54.02]For the loss of their fathers down on the loun green [03:06.48]In the year of one thousand seven hundred and ninety-eight [03:16.41]A sorrowful tale that's you and it's no to relate [03:24.94]Of thirty-six heroes to the world they were left to be seen [03:36.10]By a false information were shot on Dunlavin Green