Lyr Add: Soldier's Song (Dave Gibb)

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Soldier's Song (Dave Gibb)
From: vectis
Date: 27 May 24 - 10:34 PM

The Irish National Anthem is also called A Soldier's Song

We'll sing a song, a soldier's song,
With cheering rousing chorus,
As round our blazing fires we throng,
The starry heavens o'er us;
Impatient for the coming fight,
And as we wait the morning's light,
Here in the silence of the night,
We'll chant a soldier's song.

Chorus:
Soldiers are we
Whose lives are pledged to Ireland;
Some have come
From a land beyond the wave.
Sworn to be free,
No more our ancient sire land
Shall shelter the despot or the slave.
Tonight we man the "bearna baoil",
In Erin's cause, come woe or weal
'Mid cannons' roar and rifles peal,
We'll chant a soldier's song.

In valley green, on towering crag,
Our fathers fought before us,
And conquered 'neath the same old flag
That's proudly floating o'er us.
We're children of a fighting race,
That never yet has known disgrace,
And as we march, the foe to face,
We'll chant a soldier's song.

Chorus

Sons of the Gael! Men of the Pale!
The long watched day is breaking;
The serried ranks of Inisfail
Shall set the Tyrant quaking.
Our camp fires now are burning low;
See in the east a silv'ry glow,
Out yonder waits the Saxon foe,
So chant a soldier's song.

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Soldier's Song (Dave Gibb)
From: Ian Hendrie
Date: 27 May 24 - 02:39 PM

"Looks like a poor rewrite of Donovan's Universal Soldier."

I don't agree but for years my ambition, as a now retired Chemistry teacher, was to produce what would definitely have been a poor rewrite of Donovan's classic. My efforts never got much further than the title which was "Universal Solvent". (This may be amusing to 0.01% of the Chemistry teachers out there)

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Soldier's Song (Dave Gibb)
From: Reinhard
Date: 27 May 24 - 12:48 PM

Looks like a poor rewrite of Donovan's Universal Soldier.

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Soldier's Song (Dave Gibb)
From: Ian Hendrie
Date: 27 May 24 - 07:36 AM

I'm really enjoying listening to this wonderful song and wondered if anyone can help out with the chords?

Subject: Lyr Add: Soldier's Song (Dave Gibb)
From: RunrigFan
Date: 17 Mar 22 - 02:00 PM

A Soldier’s Song
©Dave Gibb 2009 PRS/MCPS

I have fought for survival and fought for beliefs
I’ve been fighting since time first began
Since we learned to walk upright I’ve been marching to war
It’s a curse that’s the burden of man
I’ve been hailed as a hero and damned as a fool
By those I have sworn to defend
But no matter how far or how long I’m away
I just want to go back home again

I may not return in the way we had hoped
And not in the way we had dreamed
But if all that remain are the memories you hold
Then that will be all right by me

I fought in the heather on wild windswept hills
I have fought through the deserts of Spain
I fought for Raj – where my body lies still
And I fought through the Normandy Rain
I have fought as a hero and fought as a fool
I’ve cried and I’ve died all alone
But no matter wherever this body may fall
The spirit will find its way home

I may not return in the way we had hoped
And not in the way we had dreamed
But if all that remain are the memories you hold
Then that will be all right by me

from the album Goldscaur

https://davegibb.bandcamp.com/track/a-soldiers-song