The Patriot Game-Patsy Watchorn

[ti:The Patriot Game] [ar:Patsy Watchorn] [al:Irish Rebel Heroes] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]The Patriot Game - Patsy Watchorn [00:08.37]Come all you young rebels [00:12.23]And list while I sing [00:13.59] [00:15.30]For the love of one's country [00:19.01]Is a terrible thing [00:20.97] [00:22.65]It banishes fear with [00:25.93]The speed of a flame [00:28.08] [00:29.70]And it makes us [00:30.84]All part of the patriot game [00:35.33] [00:37.13]My name is On Hanlon [00:40.43]And I've just turned sixteen [00:42.23] [00:43.88]My home is in Monaghan [00:46.75] [00:47.47]And where I was weaned [00:49.59] [00:50.78]I learned all my life [00:53.66]Cruel England's to blame [00:56.61] [00:58.08]So now I am part of the patriot game [01:03.44] [01:05.39]It's nearly two years [01:07.78]Since I wandered away [01:10.45] [01:12.09]With the local battalion [01:15.80]Of the bold IRA [01:17.82] [01:19.43]For I read of our heroes [01:22.82]And wanted the same [01:24.76] [01:26.37]So now I'm my part [01:28.05] [01:29.03]In the patriot game [01:31.98] [01:33.85]This Ireland of ours has [01:37.17]Too long been half free [01:38.96] [01:40.58]Six counties lie [01:42.20]Under John Bull's tyranny [01:46.20] [01:47.84]I'm still De Valera is greatly to blame [01:53.21] [01:54.92]For shirking his part in the Patriot game [02:00.27] [02:02.04]They told me how Connolly [02:05.55]Was shot in his chair [02:07.41] [02:08.98]His wounds from the fighting [02:12.59]All bloody and bare [02:15.11] [02:16.28]His fine body twisted [02:19.67]All battered and lame [02:21.68] [02:23.17]For playing his part [02:26.08] [02:26.96]Of the patriot game [02:28.73] [02:30.83]And now as I lie here [02:34.02]My body all holes [02:35.88] [02:37.55]I think of those traitors [02:41.10]Who bargained in souls [02:43.62] [02:44.77]And I wish that my rifle had given the same [02:50.53] [02:51.57]To those Quislings [02:52.93]Who sold out the patriot game [02:57.12] [02:58.73]To those Quislings [03:00.24]Who sold out the patriot game