We'll sing a song, a soldier's song,
With cheering rousing chorus,
As round our blazing fires we throng,
The starry heavens o'er us;
Impatient for the coming fight,
And as we wait the morning's light,
Here in the silence of the night,
We'll chant a soldier's song.
Chorus:
Soldiers are we
whose lives are pledged to Ireland;
Some have come
from a land beyond the wave.
Sworn to be free,
No più our ancient sire land
Shall shelter the despot o the slave.
Tonight we man the gap of danger
In Erin's cause, come woe o weal
'Mid cannons' roar and rifles peal,
We'll chant a soldier's song.
In valley green, on towering...
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