Lyr Req: Roll of Honour (Gerry O Glacain)

Subject: Help me track down this Irish Rebel song!
From: Stuart C
Date: 13 Jul 99 - 05:38 AM

I'd really like to find out the title and lyrics to a song which I've heard sung at football (soccer) matches involving the mighty Glasgow Celtic. The only lines I know are:

"We will never be defeated"

and

"While Ireland has a son"

Please help! Thanks in advance.

Subject: RE: Help me track down this Irish Rebel song!
From: O'Boyle
Date: 14 Jul 99 - 12:26 AM

I'm not which one you are looking for, but if it is not here I don't know where you'll find it.

Slainte

Rick

Subject: RE: Help me track down this Irish Rebel song!
From: Wolfgang
Date: 14 Jul 99 - 10:56 AM

Stuart, the two lines sound familiar.
"we ne'er will be defeated
while Ireland has such sons"
are two lines from an Irish rebel song, best guess from memory, it's called "Roll of honour". Of course, the football song lyrics might have taken the structure of such a song (enumerating loads of Irish rebels) and list their own heroes. I bet you the one song is about famous goalers, and the other about famous gaolers.

Andreas, you have the Roll of Honour lyrics stored electronically, I have them only on paper. So if you read this, please post them and Stuart can see if that's what he is looking for.

Wolfgang

Subject: RE: Help me track down this Irish Rebel song!
From: Tucker
Date: 14 Jul 99 - 11:10 PM

wolfgang you are great! I have found several lost songs through you.

Subject: RE: Help me track down this Irish Rebel song!
From: Wolfgang
Date: 15 Jul 99 - 03:51 AM

Thanks for the praise, Tucker, but what have I done to trigger that event?

Wolfgang

Subject: Lyr Add: ROLL OF HONOUR
From: MudGuard
Date: 15 Jul 99 - 05:20 AM

Wolfgang, you were right, both with the title and with me having it stored electronically.

The line you remembered, Stuart, I marked in green

Mudguard, formerly known as AndreasW

Here we go:

Roll Of Honour

Chorus  

Read the roll of honour for Ireland's bravest men
We must be united in memory of the ten
England, you're a monster, don't think that you have won
We will never be defeated while Ireland has such sons

In those dreary H block cages ten brave young Irishmen lay
Hungering for justice while their young lives ebbed away
For their rights as Irish soldiers, and to free their native land
They stood besides their leader, the galant Bobby Sands.
Now we mourn Hughes in Bellaghy, Ray MacCreesh in Armagh hills
In those narrow streets in Derry they miss O'Hara still
They so proudly gave their young lives to break Britannia's hold
Their names shall be remembered as history unfolds

Through the war torn streets of Ulster the black flags did sadly wave
To salute ten Irish martyrs, the bravest of the brave
Joe McDonnell, Martin Hurson , Kevin Lynch, Kieran Doherty
They gave their lives for freedom, with Thomas MacElwee
Michael Devine from Derry, you were the last to die
When your nine brave companions with the martyr dead you lie
Your souls cry out, remember, our deaths were not in vain
Fight on and make our homeland a nation once again.

Subject: Lyr Add: ROLL OF HONOUR (Gerry O Glacain)
From:
Date: 27 Jul 01 - 02:14 PM

hello my friend,

The songs you are looking for is called "The Roll of Honour", lyrics below, if you need anymore songs please contact me, slainte, ray.

ROLL OF HONOUR (This song was written by Gerry O Glacain (The Irish Brigade)

(Chorus) Read the roll of honour, for Ireland's bravest men
We must be united in memory of the ten
England you're a monster, don't think that you have won
We will never be defeated, while Ireland has such sons

In those dreary H-Block cages, ten brave young Irishmen lay
Hungering for justice, while their young lives ebbed away
For their rights as Irish soldiers, and to free their native land
They stood beside their leader, the gallant Bobby Sands

Now the mourn Hughes in Bellaghy, Ray McCreesh in Armagh's hills
In those narrow streets of Derry, they miss O'Hara still
They so proudly gave their young lives, to break Britannia's hold
Their names shall be remembered as history unfolds

(Chorus)

Through the war torn streets of Ulster, the black flags did sadly wave
To salute ten Irish martyrs, the bravest of the brave
Joe McDonnell, Martin Hurson, Kevin Lynch, Kieran Doherty
They gave their lives for freedom with Thomas Mcllwee

Michael Devine from Derry, you were the last to die
With your nine brave companions, with the martyred dead you lie
Your souls cry out remember, our deaths were not in vain
Fight on and make our homeland, a nation once again

(Chorus)

Subject: RE: Help me track down this Irish Rebel song!
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 27 Jul 01 - 02:31 PM

In case the penny didn't drop, they were the hunger strikers who died back in the H-blocks.

Subject: RE: Help me track down this Irish Rebel song!
From: Malcolm Douglas
Date: 27 Jul 01 - 03:33 PM

I wonder if there is any real point in reviving a thread from two years ago in order to post a duplicate set of lyrics immediately below the previous set?

Subject: RE: Help me track down this Irish Rebel song!
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 27 Jul 01 - 03:55 PM

Well, he added in the writer's name, which we didn't have before. And an email aadress with an offer to help in finding lyrics. Thus evidencing a willingness to assist us here. Thanks, raycelt, even if for some reason you hadn't read the previous post, in reviving a long gone thread.

Subject: RE: Help me track down this Irish Rebel song!
From: Malcolm Douglas
Date: 27 Jul 01 - 04:57 PM

True; it's good that we now have a proper writer's credit.