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Wolfe Tones - You'll Never Beat the Irish lyrics
Part 1 In 1167 they came to Ireland on the make They were followed by invasions and by conquests in their wake The kings and queens of Enland made our land a battle groud They took our land by fraud defeat, by poison murder and decet. Muder plunder faugh a balla clear the way Cheating stealing diddle idle de Ducking diving faugh a balla clear the way Diddily i del de di diddly idle do By the 15th century they held percariously to the Pale The invaders were more Irish than the Irish that's the tale, A fat greedy king called Henry His dick was bigger than his brain Imposed on us his Reformation Confiscations and usurpation You'll never beat the Irish No matter what you do You can put us down and keep us out But we'll come back again You know we are the fighting Irish and we'll fight until the end You should have known You'll never beat the Irish Then the virgin Queen elizabeth brought was and turmoil to our land She decimated Munster Scorched the earth and all at hand, then James 1st and Charles the mad Brought out other greedy bands They tool the land of Ulster Killed the Chieftains poinsend plundered Muder plunder faugh a balla clear the way Cheating stealing diddle idle de Ducking diving faugh a balla clear the way Diddily i del de di diddly idle do Byfraud and defective titles they cheated Connaught and the west Across the seventeenth century from war we had no rest For the curse of Cromwell plagued the land Till our towns were red with blood Then the Battle of the Boyne was fought by Williams, James and foreign hoards You'll never beat the Irish No matter what you do You can kill us off and put us down and exterminate us too But we'll come back again You know we are the fighting Irish and we'll fight until the end You should have known You'll never beat the Irish Part 2 Was at Siege of Limerick that Patrick Sarsfield won the day But the Irish they were cheated when his army went away Then Queen Ann and her successors enforced on us those Penal Laws Denying their rights and liberty of religion lands and property Muder plunder faugh a balla clear the way Cheating stealing diddle idle de Ducking diving faugh a balla clear the way Diddily i del de di diddly idle do Then came the three mad Georges and they had us nearly fooled They couldn't speak the lingo of the counties that they ruled Puppets of the ascendancy they kept the Irish down But the rebels and the whiteboys kept their arms and their forces on the run You'll never beat the Irish No matter what you do You can put us down and keep us out But we'll come back again You know we are the fighting Irish and we'll fight until the end You should have known You'll never beat the Irish Then the famine Queen Victoria came to rule us by and by She was on the throne so bloody long we thought she'd never die She presided over hunger famine poverty and disease She drove the people from their home to their deaths or lands beyond the foam Muder plunder faugh a balla clear the way Cheating stealing diddle idle de Ducking diving faugh a balla clear the way Diddily i del de di diddly idle do Across the 19th century we fought opression with great zeal O'Connell spoke his blarney for emancipation and repeal Young Ireland and the Fenians tried with dynamite and gun Parnell, the Men of Sixteen, then Collins had their armies on the run You'll never beat the Irish No matter what you do You can kill us off and put us down and exterminate us too But we'll come back again You know we are the fighting Irish and we'll fight until the end You should have known You'll never beat the Irish Muder plunder faugh a balla clear the way Cheating stealing diddle idle de Ducking diving faugh a balla clear the way Diddily i del de di diddly idle do Part 3 In 1922 well they divided up our land Six counties held by England, it was all they could command Against the wishes of the majority of the people of our land They drew a dorder through our country through town and home and mountains Muder plunder faugh a balla clear the way Cheating stealing diddle idle de Ducking diving faugh a balla clear the way Diddily i del de di diddly idle do Then the country was engulfed into a bloody civil war Between those against the treaty and those who voted for George the IV, he opend Parliament for the stalled in the north While the rest were building Ireland from the ruined colonial lashes You'll never beat the Irish No matter what you do You can put us down and keep us out But we'll come back again You know we are the fighting Irish and we'll fight until the end You should have known You'll never beat the Irish Then Edward, George, and Elizabeth looked after Ireland's fate They watched discrimination grow in a gerrymandered state Homes and churches burnt while the orange power did grew Discrimination bigotry in housing jobs and liberties Muder plunder faugh a balla clear the way Cheating stealing diddle idle de Ducking diving faugh a balla clear the way Diddily i del de di diddly idle do From the ashes of the past, the Phoniex did emerge A new declared republic, on the world it did converge The search for peace prosperity and unity in our land We too are locked in Europe, till they made their peace agreement You'll never beat the Irish No matter what you do You can kill us off and put us down and exterminate us too But we'll come back again You know we are the fighting Irish and we'll fight until the end You should have known You'll never beat the Irish Muder plunder faugh a balla clear the way Cheating stealing diddle idle de Ducking diving faugh a balla clear the way Diddily i del de di diddly idle do Muder plunder faugh a balla clear the way Cheating stealing diddle idle de Ducking diving faugh a balla clear the way Diddily i del de di diddly idle do |
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