Only recently renewed interest in this song when I found that the Mudcat forum could solve many queries. I now find there's yet another word in the 3rd verse that I don't have, but here's the lyrics I can make out. Not a proficient musician, but I think I could manage an ABC version of the tune if anyone's interested. Thing is, I don't know how to insert it in a message of this type...don't know how to do line breaks either - take upper case letter as beginning a line.

(According to album sleeve notes, written by Brian O'Higgins who was involved in some sort of skirmish in 1916)

The song I sing is a song of home, a song of roisin dubh
Of glade and glen, of ford and fen, of lake and of mountain blue
Of the signs that stand over all the land to tell of the long ago
Let your voices ring in the song I sing, Sean Eireann an Gael go deo

(Chorus) Hurrah, the night is ended, we see the dawn's red glow
Oh, shout it high, 'tis a free men's cry, Sean Eireann an Gael go deo

I sing of every wood and stream, of tower and vale and town
Where brave men died, where brave men tried to tear the red rag down
From Kerry brave to the widest wave where Lagan's waters flow
From [Tobair na Righ?] to the winding Lee, Sean Eireann an Gael go deo

I'll raise a [ran? rand?] for the ones who tread the path to the dawning day
Who will pause no more till their native shore is free from the Saxon sway
Till from every hill and from every rill the freedom cry shall go
From old and young in the Gaelic tongue, Sean Eireann an Gael go deo


I did have a though that the missing word in the last verse might be "wren" as pronounced in some areas, in some way connected with the traditional hunting of same. Any takers?

wee rover