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belfast graves - ray mcareavey lyrics

through belfast’s lonely graveyard
i strayed one autumn night
around a grave a crowd i saw
in the evening’s fading light
and from the men and women folk
who knelt around that mound
came the paters and the aves
in a soft toned gaelic sound

within this grave, a young man speaks
died two of ireland’s sons
who gave their lives in freedoms cause
and faced the tyrant’s guns
on cavan’s mountain lapinduff
fought one with bravery
until the english soldiers k!lled
brave sean mccartney

in mount joy jail the other one
on mary’s festivе morn
the bright red cloak of martyrdom
for ireland did adorn
and as thе church bells chimed their paean
to mary immaculate
a free state firing party sent
joe mckelvey to death’s gate
and farther there across the path
lies one who knew not can’t
a soldier who in ireland’s cause
his life he gladly spent
through battle, fire, and prison cell
and comrades’ treachery
brave paddy nash withstood it all
until death claimed victory

and all around are monuments
that bear the martyr’s names
true patriot’s who had served and died
to kindle freedom’s flame
ned trodden, gaynor, and o’caroll
with macastocker brave
remember them, they died for us
and found a martyr’s grave

and, oh, my friend look farther there
a grave just freshly made
a boy we all loved in our hearts
there in that grave is laid
when just a boy of sixteen years
a felon’s cap he wore
god rest you, frankie doherty
ireland’s cross you proudly bore
the ceremony’s over
the crowd is gone and i’m alone
with thoughts that take my memory back
to mccracken and wolfe tone
and in every generation still
they call on that n0ble band
to sacrifice their brave young lives
in the cause of ireland

- ray mcareavey lyrics

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