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The Patriot Game

traditional Irish song; performed by the Kingston Trio


    Come all you young rebels and list' while we sing
    For the love of one's country is a terrible thing
    It banishes fear with the speed of a flame
    And it makes us all part of The Patriot Game

    My name is O'Hannon and I've just gone sixteen
    My home is in Monaghan where I was weaned
    I've learned all my life cruel England's to blame
    And so I'm a part of The Patriot Game

    It's barely two years since they wandered away
    And it was with the local battalion of the bold IRA
    For they'd read of our heroes and they wanted the same
    To play their own part in The Patriot Game

    This Ireland of ours has for long been half-free
    Six counties are under John Bull's tyranny
    So, we gave up our boyhood to drill and to train
    And play our own part in The Patriot Game

    And now as I lie here, my body all holes,
    I think of those traitors who bargained in souls
    I wish that my rifle had given the same
    To those quislings who sold out The Patriot Game





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