The Soldiers Song

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[Verse]
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We'll sing a song, a sol-dier's song
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With cheer-ing rous-ing cho-rus
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As round our blaz-ing fires we throng
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The star-ry hea-vens o'er us
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Im-pa-tient for the com-ing fight
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And as we wait the morn-ing's light
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Here in the si-lence of the night
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We'll chant a sol-dier's song

[Chorus]
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Sol-diers are we__ Whose lives are pledged to Ire-land
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Some have come__ From a land be-yond the wave
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Sworn to be free__ No more our an-cient sire land
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Shall shel-ter the des-pot or the slave
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To-night we man the bear-na baoil
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In E-rin's cause, come woe or weal
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'Mid can-non's roar and ri-fles' peal
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We'll chant a sol-dier's song

[Verse]
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In val-ley green, on tow-er-ing crag
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Our fa-thers fought be-fore us
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And con-quered 'neath the same old flag
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That's proud-ly float-ing o'er us
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We're child-ren of a fight-ing race
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That ne-ver yet has known dis-grace
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And as we march, the foe to face
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We'll chant a sol-dier's song

[Chorus]
G                         C                   G
Sol-diers are we__ Whose lives are pledged to Ire-land
G         Em            A                D
Some have come__ From a land be-yond the wave
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Sworn to be free__ No more our an-cient sire land
       D                   A      D
Shall shel-ter the des-pot or the slave
    Am              G
To-night we man the bear-na baoil
   D
In E-rin's cause, come woe or weal
     G                  C        Em
'Mid can-non's roar and ri-fles' peal
        G     D          G
We'll chant a sol-dier's song

[Verse]
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Sons of the Gael! Men of the Pale!
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The long watched day is break-ing;
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The ser-ried ranks of In-is-fail
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Shall set the Ty-rant quak-ing.
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Our camp fires now are burn-ing low;
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See in the east a silv'-ry glow,
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Out yon-der waits the Sa-xon foe,
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So chant a sol-dier's song.

[Chorus]
G                         C                   G
Sol-diers are we__ Whose lives are pledged to Ire-land
G         Em            A                D
Some have come__ From a land be-yond the wave
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Sworn to be free__ No more our an-cient sire land
       D                   A      D
Shall shel-ter the des-pot or the slave
    Am              G
To-night we man the bear-na baoil
   D
In E-rin's cause, come woe or weal
     G                  C        Em
'Mid can-non's roar and ri-fles' peal
        G     D          G
We'll chant a sol-dier's song