Valley of Knockanure-Declan Hunt/Ray McAreavey/Johnny Beggan

[ti:Valley of Knockanure] [ar:Ray McAreavey/Johnny Beggan] [al:The Men Behind the Wire] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Valley of Knockanure - Declan Hunt/Ray McAreavey/Johnny Beggan [00:00.38]You may sing or speak about Easter Week [00:04.65]On the heroes of ninety-eight [00:08.09] [00:08.94]Or the Fenian men who roamed the glen [00:12.99]In victory or defeat [00:16.30] [00:16.99]Their names on history's page are told [00:20.91]Their memory will endure [00:24.46]Not a song was sung of our darling sons [00:28.39]In the valley of Knockanure [00:31.69] [00:32.28]There was Walsh and Lyons and the Dalton boy [00:36.26]They were young and in their prime [00:39.57] [00:40.21]They rambled to a lonely spot [00:44.04]Where the Black and Tans did hide [00:47.35] [00:47.99]The Republic bold they did uphold [00:51.70]Though outlawed on the moor [00:55.45]And side by side [00:57.22]They fought and died [00:58.98]In the valley of Knockanure [01:03.12]'Twas on a neighbouring hillside [01:06.88]We listened with hushed dismay [01:10.02] [01:10.70]In every house [01:12.57]In every town [01:14.53]The mating knelt to pray [01:17.61] [01:18.19]They're closing in around them now [01:21.96]With rifle fire so sure [01:25.73]And Lyons is dead and Dalton's down [01:29.31]In the valley of Knockanure [01:32.67] [01:33.27]But ere the guns can seal his fate [01:36.91]Can vail and broken through [01:40.62]With a prayer to God [01:42.57]He spun the sod as against the hill he flew [01:48.13]But the bullets they told his flesh in two [01:51.89]He cried with voice so sure [01:54.72] [01:55.51]Revenge I'll get for my comrades' deaths [01:58.93]In the valley of Knockanure [02:02.76]Oh the summer sun is sinking [02:06.05]Now behind the field and lea [02:09.79] [02:10.46]The pale pale moonlight is rising [02:13.54]Far around beyond Tralee [02:17.49] [02:18.00]The dismal stars and clouds afar [02:21.63]Are darkening over the moor [02:25.09]And the banshee cried [02:27.08]When I hear those died [02:28.89]In the valley of Knockanure