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the wexford massacre - the grehan sisters lyrics

[verse 1]
they knelt around the cross divine
the matron and the maid
they bowed before redemption’s sign
and fervently they prayed
three hundred fair and helpless ones
whose crime was this alone
their valiant husbands, sires, and sons
had battled for their own

[verse 2]
had battled bravely but in vain
the saxon won the fight
the irish corpses strewed the plain
where valour slept with right
and now that man of demon guilt
to fated wexford flеw
the red blood reeking on his hilt
of hearts to erin truе

[verse 3]
he found them there, the young, the old
the maiden, and the wife
their guardians brave in death were called
who dared for them the strife
they prayed for mercy, god on high
before thy cross they prayed
but ruthless cromwell bade them die
to glut the saxon blade
[verse 4]
three hundred fell, the stifled prayer
was quenched in woman’s blood
nor youth nor age could move to swear
from slaughter’s crimson flood
but nations keep a stern account
of deeds that tyrants do
and guiltless blood to heaven will mount
and heaven avenge it too

- the grehan sisters lyrics

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