Foggy Dew-Dermot O'Brien

[ti:The Foggy Dew] [ar:Dermot O'Brien] [al:Kevin Barry & Other Great Irish Rebel Ballads] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Foggy Dew - Dermot O'Brien [00:07.09]I was down the glen one Easter morn [00:12.74]To a city fair rode I [00:17.06] [00:18.72]There armed lines of marching men [00:24.00] [00:24.86]In squadrons passed me by [00:28.54] [00:30.31]No pipe did hum [00:32.73] [00:33.67]No battle drum did sound its loud tattoo [00:39.83] [00:42.04]But the Angelus Bells or the Liffey swells [00:47.39] [00:48.22]Rang out in the foggy dew [00:51.66] [00:59.63]Right proudly high over Dublin town [01:04.96] [01:05.83]They Hung out a flag of war [01:09.26] [01:11.19]Was better to die neath that Irish sky [01:16.43] [01:17.38]Than at Sulva or Sud el Bar [01:21.13] [01:22.91]And from the plains of Royal Meath [01:28.45] [01:29.17]Strong men came hurrying through [01:32.29] [01:34.61]While Brittania's Huns with their long range guns [01:40.24] [01:40.92]Sailed in through the foggy dew [01:44.48] [01:52.24]Twas Britannia bade our Wild Geese go [01:57.55] [01:58.14]That small nations might be free [02:01.94] [02:03.87]But their lonely graves are by Sulva's waves [02:09.12] [02:09.70]Or the shore of the Great North Sea [02:13.60] [02:15.55]Oh had they died by Pearse's side [02:20.89] [02:21.79]Or fought with Cathal [02:23.92] [02:27.23]Their names we will keep where the fenians sleep [02:32.53] [02:33.10]Neath the shroud of the foggy dew [02:37.05] [02:38.96]But the bravest fell and the requiem bell [02:44.39] [02:45.24]Rang mournfully and clear [02:48.62] [02:50.70]For those who died that Easter tide [02:56.11] [02:56.97]In the springing of the year [03:00.92] [03:02.66]And the world did gaze in deep amaze [03:07.33] [03:08.51]At those fearless men but few [03:12.15] [03:14.09]Who bore the fight that freedom's light [03:19.47] [03:20.02]Might shine through the foggy dew [03:23.99] [03:25.79]Foggy dew