Lyr. Add: FENIAN'S HOPE OF INDEPENDENCE
Air: Donnelly and Cooper

Come all, you true-bred Irishmen, and listen unto me,
All you that are true-hearted and love your Country;
Go now and be a FENIAN your country for to free,
And tare down English tyranny, and plant sweet Liberty!

I'll name you a young hero: John Egan is his name;
It's in the FENIAN Brotherhood he has enrolled his name;
He'll be a brave Commander, great valor he will show;
He'll crush down English tyranny, and help its overthrow.

Remember your fore-fathers, beneath its earth, they lay,
Under the foot of tyranny, it ought to make you sigh
To think they died in bondage, under the English laws! -
Now is your opportunity, boys, to avenge their cause.

When the Stars and Stripes are hoisted upon your fatherland,
With harp and bonny Shamrock just at your own command,
It's then that all earthly pleasures, before you, you'll see,
When you think that you're a Free-man in your own country.

We'll lower the pride of England, her yoke we'll overthrow:
Long she has persecuted and kept the Irish low;
But soon with her it shall be night- with us the coming day
In her place, we'll plant the Stars and Stripes of sweet America!

Oh! England! to thy sorrow, thou will lose a precious gem:
It's the bonny Shamrock: from around your diadem-
No longer crushed beneath your Rose, to bear your mighty sin,
The Eagle of America shall raise it on her wing!

Now all you, noble-hearted men, pray listen unto me:
You have fought in many battles, the Nigger for to free;
You know you've shed your precious blood: that in the Nigger's cause;
Go now, like Noble Irishmen, and fight against English laws!

"Presented to the Shamrock-Circle by Mrs. A---, August 3rd, 1865."
Printed in broadside by H. De Marsan, New York. Iten 7 of 65 under Fenian, America Singing: Nineteenth-Century Song Sheets. Easily found by entering Fenian in Search.
This is typical of the Marsan-printed lyrics; not great, but speak of the euphoria of the Fenians just after the Civil War. Another speaks of getting ironclads like the Alabama and the Moniter to attack with.
In the DY, a Canadian version of the much earlier song, Sweet Sunny South, is given as "The Sunny South," a Canadian anti-Fenian song.