Lyr Req: The West's Awake

19 Mar 97 - 05:31 PM (#3254)
Subject: Lyrics for The West's Awake
From: [e-mail]

What are the lyrics for The West's Awake? The Wolfe Tones and Makem and the Clancy Brothers recorded it.

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20 Mar 97 - 04:12 AM (#3282)
Subject: RE: Lyrics for The West's Awake
From: Martin Ryan

Filter threads on "West's awake" - it was posted about three weeks ago

Regards

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20 Mar 97 - 11:13 AM (#3294)
Subject: RE: Lyrics for The West's Awake
From: [e-mail]

I found it on 2/28/97. Many thanks.

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27 Jul 01 - 01:45 PM (#516087)
Subject: Lyr Add: THE WEST'S ASLEEP (The Dubliners)
From: GUEST,bdermody

THE WEST'S ASLEEP.
(The Dubliners)

When all beside a vigil keep,
The West's asleep, the West's asleep-
Alas! and well may Erin weep,
When Connaught lies in slumber deep.
There lake and plain smile fair and free,
'Mid rocks-their guardian chivalry-
Sing oh! let man learn liberty
From crashing wind and lashing sea.

That chainless wave and lovely, land
Freedom and Nationhood demand-
Be sure, the great God never plann'd,
For slumbering slaves, a home so grand.
And, long, a brave and haughty race
Honoured and sentinelled the place-
Sing oh! not even their sons' disgrace
Can quite destroy their glory's trace.

For often, in O'Connor's van,
To triumph dash'd each Connaught clan-
And fleet as deer the Normans ran
Through Coirrsliabh Pass and Ard Rathain.*
And later times saw deeds as brave;
And glory guards Clanricarde's grave-
Sing oh! they died their land to save,
At Aughrim's slopes and Shannon's wave.

* Vulgarly written Corlews and Ardrahan. [note in Spirit of the Nation]

And if, when all a vigil keep,
The West's; asleep, the West's asleep-
Alas! and well may Erin weep,
That Connaught lies in slumber deep.
But-hark! -some voice like thunder spake:
" The West's awake, the West's awake'-
Sing oh! hurra! let England quake,
We'll watch till death for Erins sake!"

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27 Jul 01 - 01:59 PM (#516101)
Subject: RE: Lyrics for The West's Awake
From: Big Tim

What do you think Thomas Davis (1814-45) had in mind when he wrote this song in 1843 after a visit to the Curlews, Ardhahan, Galway, etc? The Races of Castlebar (1798)? or the west of Ireland as a symbol of the ancient, true Gaelic "real" Ireland that would rise up and inspire the rest of the country to expel the British?

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27 Jul 01 - 02:32 PM (#516145)
Subject: RE: Lyrics for The West's Awake
From: MMario

Feb 28 1997

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