Lyr Req: Ireland Unfree (Wolfe Tones)

Subject: Lyr Req:Wolfe Tones Song
From: GUEST,sara_grl
Date: 20 Mar 01 - 09:24 PM

Hi all - Any help with the rest of these lyrics along with a song title will be greatly appreciated! :) All I know is that it's a song by the Wolfe Tones and it's not on any of the 'easier to find' CDs that I have. Here's the chorus...I believe!

There's a faded old picture on the wall all alone A dusty old picture The pride of his home With a harp and a shamrock And these workds underneath Ireland (... ....) shall never be at peace...

Thanks a million! :) sara_grl

Subject: Lyr Add: IRELAND UNFREE
From: Sorcha
Date: 20 Mar 01 - 10:48 PM

IRELAND UNFREE

In a dimly lit room by the smouldering fire
Sat an old man so lonely so sad and so tired
Once he struggled for freedom, now he struggles to live
With his few small possessions and his past to relive

There´s a faded old picture on the wall all alone
A dusty old picture, the pride of his home
With a harp and a shamrock with these words underneath
"Ireland unfree shall never be at peace"

And his thoughts wander back to the days of his prime
Oh it seems now there´s nothing goes faster than time
To his comrades of old he remembers the day
When he marched behind Pearse and the bold IRA

And it´s to Easter week and his thoughts wander back
Oh those leaders of men sure no courage did lack
But now he´s just left with his memories of old
For his name nor his story will never be told

He gazed at that picture and gave a sad smile
For each wrinkle and line told the struggle of time
Then he gazed once again and his eyes filled with tears
For the man in that picture was his friend Padraic Pearse

from: http://www.uni-mainz.de/~cielp005/rebelsongs/sor48.htm

Subject: RE: Lyr Req:Wolfe Tones Song
From: Sorcha
Date: 20 Mar 01 - 10:51 PM

CD title is "Spirit of a Nation", released by Shanachie.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req:Wolfe Tones Song
From: Big Tim
Date: 21 Mar 01 - 09:53 AM

The title "Ireland Unfree Shall never Be At Peace" is taken from the funeral oration for O'Donovan Rossa by De Valera (1915). It still appears on murals in Northern Ireland.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req:Wolfe Tones Song
From: sara_grl
Date: 21 Mar 01 - 10:00 AM

Thank you all SO much. I'm not able to find that CD but I guess I'll have to order it.

Thanks again! sara_grl

Subject: RE: Lyr Req:Wolfe Tones Song
From: Big Tim
Date: 21 Mar 01 - 03:13 PM

Sorry, I'm cracking up in my old age! The speech was of course by Patrick Pearse.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req:Wolfe Tones Song
From: sara_grl
Date: 21 Mar 01 - 03:57 PM

Interestingly enough, on the site that Sorcha referenced, there's a photo of a mural in Belfast with these words written next to it:

The fools the fools. They have left us our fenian dead and while Ireland holds these graves Ireland unfree shall never be at peace.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req:Wolfe Tones Song
From: Big Tim
Date: 22 Mar 01 - 02:52 PM

Yea i saw that mural on a visit to Belfast a couple of years ago, it's in the Falls, took a photo of it, and ran like hell!