The Patriot Game-The Bluebells

[ti:The Patriot Game] [ar:The Bluebells] [al:The Singles Collection] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]The Patriot Game - The Bluebells [00:01.37]Written by：D. Behan [00:02.74]Come all you young rebels and list while I sing [00:08.69] [00:11.47]For the love of one's country is a terrible thing [00:17.12] [00:19.88]It banishes fear with the speed of a flame [00:25.61] [00:28.57]And it makes us all part of the patriot game [00:34.14] [00:37.07]My name is O'hanlon I've just turned sixteen [00:42.27] [00:45.56]My home is in Montanan where I was weaned [00:51.43] [00:54.10]I learned all my life injustice to blame [00:59.47] [01:02.72]And so I'm part of the patriot game [01:08.04] [01:11.14]It's barely two years since I wandered away [01:16.66] [01:19.57]With the local battalion of the old Ira [01:25.16] [01:28.21]They told me of heroes I wanted the same [01:33.70] [01:36.78]To play a great part in the patriot game [01:42.19] [02:17.68]Where is the young man this earth ever taught [02:22.85] [02:25.91]Whose life is less sacred then all the old fraught [02:31.29] [02:34.41]Whose boy who's less lucky whose vision less fate [02:39.91] [02:42.95]Than the old men who paid for the patriot game [02:48.41] [02:55.69]And now as I'm dyeing my body all holes [03:01.31] [03:04.17]I think of the old men who bargained and sold [03:09.70] [03:12.69]I'm sorry my rifle has not done the same [03:18.40] [03:21.32]To those rebels who sold out the patriot game