The Broad Black Brimmer-Brier/Cormac O'Moore

[ti:The Broad Black Brimmer] [ar:Brier] [al:The Songs That Shake the Barley - The Ultimate Rebel Collection] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]The Broad Black Brimmer - Brier/Cormac O'Moore [00:05.16]There's a uniform that's hanging [00:07.14]In what's known as Father's room [00:09.15]A uniform so simple in it's style [00:12.22] [00:13.16]It has no braid of gold or silk [00:15.71]No hat with feathered plumes [00:17.28]Yet Mother has preserved it all the while [00:20.35] [00:21.35]One day she made me try it on [00:23.36]A wish of mine for years [00:25.39]"In memory of your father Sean" she said [00:28.29] [00:29.45]And when I put the Sam Browne on [00:31.93]She was smiling with the tears [00:33.50]As she placed the broad black brimmer on my head [00:36.25] [00:37.04]It's just a broad black brimmer [00:39.58]With its ribbons frayed and torn [00:41.65]By the careless whisk of many a mountain breeze [00:44.86] [00:45.80]An old trench coat that's battle stained and worn [00:49.73]And breeches almost threadbare at the knees [00:53.33] [00:53.85]A Sam Browne belt with a buckle big and strong [00:57.87]A holster that's been empty many a day [01:00.94] [01:01.88]And when men claim Ireland's freedom [01:03.93]The one they'll choose to lead 'em [01:05.84]Will wear the broad black brimmer of the IRA [01:09.65] [01:12.90]It was the uniform been worn by my father years ago [01:16.51] [01:17.08]When he reached me mother's homestead on the run [01:19.87] [01:20.89]It was the uniform me father wore [01:23.36]In that little church below [01:25.12]When oul' Father Mac he blessed the pair as one [01:28.14] [01:28.82]And after Truce and Treaty and the parting of the ways [01:33.37]He wore it when he marched out with the rest [01:36.43] [01:37.44]And when they bore his body down the rugged heather braes [01:41.30]They placed the broad black brimmer on his breast [01:44.38] [01:45.04]It's just a broad black brimmer [01:47.60]With its ribbons frayed and torn [01:49.56]By the careless whisk of many a mountain breeze [01:53.03] [01:53.66]An old trench coat that's battle stained and worn [01:57.71]And breeches almost threadbare at the knees [02:01.01] [02:01.83]A Sam Browne belt with a buckle big and strong [02:05.77]A holster that's been empty many a day [02:08.90] [02:09.98]And when men claim Ireland's freedom [02:11.96]The one they'll choose to lead 'em [02:13.90]Will wear the broad black brimmer of the IRA [02:18.15]When men claim Ireland's freedom the one who'll choose [02:21.62]To lead them [02:22.26]Will wear the broad black brimmer of the IRA