Young Roddy McCorley-The Clancy Brothers with Tommy Makem

[ti:Young Roddy McCorley] [ar:The Clancy Brothers with Tommy Makem] [al:A Spontaneous Performance Recording] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Young Roddy McCorley - The Clancy Brothers with Tommy Makem [00:21.71]Oh see the fleet foot hosts of men [00:25.31]Who sped with faces wan [00:28.48] [00:29.38]From farm stead and from fisher's cot [00:33.22] [00:33.75]Along the banks of ban [00:35.92] [00:37.41]They come with vengeance in their eyes [00:41.03] [00:41.58]Too late [00:42.37]Too late are they [00:44.51] [00:45.19]For young roddy mccorley goes to die on the bridge [00:50.22]Of toome [00:50.93]Today [00:52.22] [00:53.47]Up the narrow street he stepped [00:56.72] [00:57.24]Smiling proud and young [00:59.45] [01:00.79]About the hemp rope on his neck [01:04.98]The golden ringlets clung [01:07.50] [01:08.51]There was never a tear in his blue eyes [01:12.72]Both glad and bright were they [01:15.09] [01:16.21]As young roddy mccorley goes to die on the bridge [01:20.87]Of toome [01:21.95]Today [01:23.79] [01:24.64]When he last stepped up that street [01:27.48] [01:28.03]His shining pike in hand [01:30.67] [01:31.63]Around him marched in grim array [01:35.72]A stalwart earnest band [01:38.78] [01:39.29]For antrim town [01:41.47]For antrim town [01:43.11]He led them to the fray [01:46.72]As young roddy mccorley goes to die on the bridge [01:51.55]Of toome [01:52.52]Today [01:54.25]There is never a one of all who die [01:58.38]Who bravely fell in fray [02:01.24] [02:01.94]Than he who marches to his death [02:05.85]On the bridge of toome today [02:09.33]True to the last true to the last [02:13.39]He treads the upward way [02:15.79] [02:16.93]As young roddy mccorley goes to die on the bridge [02:21.94]Of toome [02:22.70]Today