Bejaysus Shaneo, you just wheeched me back a half century and put the hairs on the back of my neck up! I could hear her singing those words in my head. Thanks for posting the lyrics!
Quokka's verse would fit in after V3 of your version quite nicely don't you think?

I knew "Patrick" didn't sound quite right, it was of course Terence McSweeny, the Lord Mayor of Cork, who died on a hunger strike in protest at British rule in 1920.