Lyr Req: Ireland United and Free

Subject: Lyr Req: Ireland United and Free
From: Joe Offer
Date: 12 Jan 23 - 12:09 PM

from Manny Hanuman Lieberman on Facebook

Does anyone know a song called "Ireland United and Free?" Thats also the closing line of every verse. I learned it from KPFK radio 40 years ago, but can find not a single reference to it anywhere online.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Ireland United and Free
From: open mike
Date: 12 Jan 23 - 12:12 PM

CAME LOOKING HERE...PROBABLY SAW THE SAME POST THAT JOE OFFER SAW! I DID FIND THIS:
ireland united gaelic and free

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Ireland United and Free
From: open mike
Date: 12 Jan 23 - 12:13 PM

The Irish Brigade Lyrics And Chords
In [G] Armagh and in Derry, in [C] Antrim and in [G] Down,
the [C] north gale is [G] rising to [A7] bring down the [D7] crown.
Then [G] shout the old war cry, and the [C] blood's running [G] high.
We'll [C] fight for true [G] Ireland, for [A7] today we shall [D7] die.
The [G] days of the slavers will no [C] longer[G] be
When [C] Gaels stand [G] united, they'll [A7] always be [D7] free.


[chorus]
[C] Ire[D]land [G] united, [D] Gaelic and [Am] free.
[C] Land [D] of my [G] birth, in [D] freedom we'll [Am] be.


From New York and Chicago, in Sydney and in Perth
The Gaelic storm is growing; it's sweeping across the earth,
We'll serve no queen or cremlin, in freedom we shall dwell.
If they try to step in England's shoes, we'll see them all in hell.
There's no force on this earth can ever stand the tide
Of a nation united, the truth on its side.


The banshee's mournful whisper of an old lost battle scene,
A true Gael's blood is calling, "Preserve our ancient green,"
Is there any mind so shallow, is there any heart so black,
Can watch his county's body tore apart on England's rack?
Remember now in Belfast, brave men will fight and die,
To keep that shining vision alive and burning high.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Ireland United and Free
From: open mike
Date: 12 Jan 23 - 12:14 PM

Recorded by The Irish Brigade and by Ray McAreavey and Wolfehound.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Ireland United and Free
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 12 Jan 23 - 02:35 PM

Of course the rhetoric about Gaelicness as being the summation of being Irish has always been a dangerous falsehood which has done a lot of damage in it's time, and runs completely contrary to the notion of Irish unity.

Sounds to me as if they are making the same mistake today in Ukraine, pretending that those Ukrainians who speak Russian are somehow less Ukrainian.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Ireland United and Free
From: pattyClink
Date: 13 Jan 23 - 03:54 PM

The Wolfe Tones recorded a song they apparently called "Padraig Pearse", am pasting from one of the lyric sites, the last line of the chorus is 'when Ireland's a nation, united and free'. And it is a haunting last line, has stuck with me many years too.



In Dublin town in nineteen sixteen a flame of freedom did arise
A group of men with determination caught an empire by surprise
Through the streets our men were marching
They rallied with their hopes and fears
And the Enda boys came searching for their leader Padraig Pearse


Chorus:
The poet and the Irish rebel, a Gaelic scholar and a visionary
We gave to him no fitting tribute
When Ireland's at peace only that can be
When Ireland's a nation, united and free


On Easter morn he faced the nation from the steps of the G.P.O
And read aloud the proclamation, the seed of nationhood to sow
But soon the word had spread to London of an insurrection there at hand
And the deeds of Padraic Pearse was set about to free his land



For five long days the battle rages, for five long nights the battle wore
We will watch as Dublin City blazes and see our men fall through the floor
No Ireland's proud of her effort for her cause we fought with pride
But to save more life and to save our city, we make our peace with McFainis cried



Kilmainham Jail in 1916, they brought young Pearse
to his death cell and they tried him as a traitor to shoot this man who dared to rebel
He only tried to free his country of the shackles of 800 years
When dawn did break on that May morning they shot our Leader Padraic Pearse

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Ireland United and Free
From: pattyClink
Date: 13 Jan 23 - 04:07 PM

There seems to be a few errors in the text, so those who know the song please add fixes to it. In the first line, the meter is sung so the word is more like 'vision'ry'.

The third verse seems to be the most garbled, pretty sure third line is not "No Ireland's", etc.

Also, who wrote the thing? The lyrics sites on the net only care about who recorded it.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Ireland United and Free
From: cnd
Date: 13 Jan 23 - 05:12 PM

No idea how true it is, but the album for the Wolfetones version credits band member Brian Warfield