The lyrics for this song that I know are:

I went to see a legend, just the other night
Up in the Yankee Stadium underneath the lights
I heard a man speak there, after many years in jail
His name it was Mandela, and he came to tell his tale

Well the crowd cheered him loudly, but silence it soon fell
As he spoke about the hard years in a South African cell
And although he was free now, his heart was still in pain
For his country and his people still wore apartheid's chain

He said he hoped that we would join him
As he walked down freedom's path
That these years would be the hardest, but they would be the last
And to join our hands together so that we might be as one
Try to find ourselves the courage that this battle could be won

I went home to bed that evening, fell asleep and had a dream
I was standing in a cold rain, in an Irish field of green
And all around me headstones of our martyrs from the past
I was standing there in silence when they spoke to me at last

Kevin Barry is my name and I died in a hang man's noose
For they wanted the name's of my comrades but this I would not do
And I am Roger Casement and I died by England's hand
For bringing German Rifles to the lonely Banna Strand

James Connolly is my name, the working people were my life
When they shot me down in Kilmainham Jail it brought great bloody strife
And I am Padraig Pearse, I was murdered by the foe
For I read the proclamation outside the GPO

The last voice that I heard said my name is Bobby Sands
He said it's good to hear Mandela's words sweepin' o'er the land
I hope they hear it up in Belfast, in Derry and in Tyrone
Maybe then those English soldiers will know it's time to go home

I awoke the next morning, I remembered them all
And who would have believed they'd torn down the Berlin wall?
Or they'd free Nelson Mandela, oh could this really be?
Maybe now we will see Ireland reunited and free.