Roddy Mccorley (Album Version)-The Clancy Brothers/Tommy Makem

[ti:Roddy Mccorley] [ar:The Clancy Brothers] [al:The Clancy Brothers And Tommy Makem ] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Roddy Mccorley (Album Version) - The Clancy Brothers/Tommy Makem [00:05.44]O see the fleet-foot host of men [00:09.83]Who speed with faces warm [00:13.88]From farmstead and from fishers' cot [00:18.40]Along the banks of Ban; [00:22.37]They come with vengeance in their eyes [00:26.88]Too late Too late are they [00:30.70]For young Roddy McCorley goes to die [00:34.92]On the bridge of Toom today [00:39.76]Up the narrow street he stepped [00:43.37]Smiling proud and young [00:47.36]About the hemp-rope on his neck [00:51.80]The golden ringlets clung; [00:55.76]There's near a tear in his blue eyes [01:00.05]For glad and brave are they [01:03.80]As young Roddy McCorley goes to die [01:08.12]On the bridge of Toom today [01:12.39]When he last trod this street [01:16.96]His shining pike in hand [01:20.44]Behind him marched in grim array [01:24.56]A stalwart earnest band [01:28.56]Antrim town Antrim town [01:32.76]He led them to the fray [01:36.68]And young Roddy McCorley goes to die [01:40.78]On the bridge of Toom today [01:44.85]There's never a one of all your dead [01:48.96]More bravely died in fray [01:52.98]Than he who marches to his fate [01:57.13]On the bridge of Toom today; [02:01.08]True to the last True to the last [02:05.21]He treads the upwards way [02:09.13]And young Roddy McCorley goes to die [02:13.23]On the bridge of Toom today