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Thread #170716 Message #4128515
Posted By: Joe Offer
09-Dec-21 - 06:33 PM
Thread Name: DTStudy: Last Night I Had a Happy Dream
Subject: ADD: Grá-mo-chroí I'd like to see Old Ireland free
The song is #63 in Colm O'Lochlainn's Irish Street Ballads, "Gra-mo-chroi. I'd Like to See Old Ireland Free Once More" (1 text, 1 tune)
GRÁ-MO-CHROÍ, I'D LIKE TO SEE OLD IRELAND FREE ONCE MORE
Last night I had a happy dream Though restless where I be. I thought again brave Irishmen Had set old Ireland free. And how I got excited When the cannons loud did roar. It's Grá-mo-chroí I'd like to see Old Ireland free once more.
Cold is the heart that does not love Its own dear native land. When her sons are far beyond the sea All on a foreign strand. By land or sea where'er they be They love their fertile shore. It's Grá-mo-chroí I'd like to see Old Ireland free once more.
It's true we had brave Irishmen, As everyone must own, The Liberator, O'Connell, true, Lord Edward and Wolfe Tone, And also Robert Emmet, who Till death did not give o'er. It's Grá-mo-chroí I'd like to see Old Ireland free once more.
Allen, Larkin, and O'Brien died Their country to set free, And see to-day brave Irishmen Are struggling hard for thee. Both day and night they'll always fight Until death they'll ne'er give o'er, It's Grá-mo-chroí I'd like to see Old Ireland free once more.
We'll not forgot the former years, They're kept in memory still, Or the Wexford man of ninety-eight, Who fought on Vinegar Hill; With Father Murphy at their side, And his green flag waving o'er. It's Grá-mo-chroí I'd like to see Old Ireland free once more.
Source: #63 in Colm O'Lochlainn's Irish Street Ballads, first published in 1939