Artist: | The Dubliners (English) |
User: | David Levy |
Duration: | 130 seconds |
Delay: | 12 seconds |
Chord names: | Not defined |
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Comment: | - |
The Foggy Dew
Traditional
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As down the glen one Easter morn
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to a city fair rode I
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There Ar-med lines of marching men
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in squadrons passed me by
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No pipe did hum, nor battle drum
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did sound it's dread tattoo
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But the Angelus bell o'er the Liffey swell
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rang out through the foggy dew.
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Right proudly high over Dublin Town
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they hung out the flag of war
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'Twas better to die 'neath an Irish sky
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than at Suvla or Sud El Bar..
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And from the plains of Royal Meath
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strong men came hurrying through,
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While Britannia's Huns, with their long range guns
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sailed in through the foggy dew
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'Twas Britannia bade our Wild Geese go
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that small nations might be free
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But their lonely graves are by Suvla's waves
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or the fringe of the great North Sea.
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Oh, had they died by Pearse's side
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or fought with Cathal Brugha
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Their names we will keep where the fenians sleep
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'neath the shroud of the foggy dew
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But the bravest fell, and the requiem bell
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ra-ng mou--rnfu--l-ly and clear
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For those who died that Eastertide
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in the springtime of the year.
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While the world did gaze with deep amaze,
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at those fearless men, but few
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Who bore the fight that freedom's light
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might shine through the foggy dew
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Oh, back through the glen I rode again
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And my heart with grief was sore
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For I parted then with valiant men
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Whom I never shall see no more
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But to and fro in my dreams I go
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And I'd kneel and pray for you,
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For slavery fled, O glorious dead,
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When you fell in the foggy dew.