Thanks for that Mysha, if it's OK with you, I'll adopt your rewritten last verse should I sing this song in future.

Always strikes me with people writing songs about historical events or places in retrospect, the least they can do is get the thing right. Other "popular/well known" folk songs that have failed to do this:

"Back Home in Derry" - Sands

"Band Played Waltzing Matilda" - Bogle

"Fields of Athenry" - StJohn.