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Thread #51040   Message #775788
Posted By: MartinRyan
02-Sep-02 - 05:37 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Add: Sean South of Limerick (Dominic Behan)
Subject: Lyr Add: SEAN SOUTH OF LIMERICK
I promised the words of Dominic Behan's song on Sean South, in a thread I've mislaid! I'm posting them here and will add a link later.

SEAN SOUTH OF LIMERICK

Have you been in Limerick green
And through those woods and valleys
Where often Sean did gaze upon
The beauty of his country?

And did you share his dream so fair
Of each plain and wood and valley
Say did you pause to count the cost
Or like Sean the way to liberty

And did yo find the Poet's mind
Alive and in those valleys
Singing wild in boyish pride
A hymn to vanquish tyranny

And did you see him murdered be
Far from his woods and valleys
Because he heard, because he dared
To heed the call to rally?

And will you go to meet the foe
Through shell shock wood and valley
Or is young Sean in vain now gone
Dead to his dreams of liberty?

Is it in vain his life blood drains
Far from his woods and valleys?
Oh no! we cry, he didn't die
But lives for all Eternity

Taken from "The Singing Irish" by Dominic Behan.

Regards