Lyrics

There was a man lived in the North a hero brave and bold Who robbed the wealthy Landlords of their sliver and their gold He gave the money to the poor to p

And in that bog there was a tree, a rare tree, a rattlin’ tree With the tree in the bog And the bog down in the valley-o. Now on that tree there was a limb

A Róisín, ná bíodh brón ort ná chás anois tá do phárdún ó’n Róimh agus ó’n bPápa agat tá na bráithre ag teacht thar sáile agus ag tríall thar muir ‘S ni ce

Speed bonnie boat, like a bird on the wing, Onward, the sailors cry Carry the lad that’s born to be king Over the sea to Skye Loud the winds howl, loud the

As I went home on Monday night, as drunk as drunk could be I saw a horse outside the door, where my old horse should be I called my wife and I said to her:

I was eighteen years old, when I went down to Dublin with a fistful of money and a cartload of dreams “Take your time”, said me father “stop rushing like h

The small birds were lining the bleak autumn branches Preparing to fly to a far sunny shore When the tinkers made camp at a bend in the river Returning fro

In my memory I will always see The town that I have loved so well Where our school played ball by the gasyard wall And we laughed through the smoke and sme

Chorus: The winds are singing freedom, they sing it everywhere They sing it on the mountain side and in the city square They sing of a new day dawning, whe

There’s a war outside I can hear the distant guns tonight, There’s a war outside And I don’t know whether to run or fight, If I open this door I may be dea