
Date of issue: 31.12.1977
Record label: Tara, Universal Music Ireland
Song language: English
Dunlavin Green |
In the year of one thousand seven hundred and ninety-eight |
A sorrowful tale the truth unto you I’ll relate |
Of thirty-six heroes to the world they were left to be seen |
By a false information they were shot on Dunlavin Green |
Bad luck to you Saunders their lives you sold away |
You said a parade would be held on that very day |
The drums they did rattle and the fifes they did sweetly play |
Surrounded we were and quietly marched away |
Quite easily they led us as prisoners through the town |
To be shot on the plain we then were forced to lie down |
Such grief and such sorrow in one place was ne’er before seen |
As when the blood ran in streams down the dykes of Dunlavin Green |
There is young Andy Ryan he has plenty of cause to complain |
Likewise the two Duffy’s who were shot down on the plain |
And young Mattie Farrell whose mother distracted will run |
For the loss of her own darling boy her eldest son |
Bad luck to you Saunders bad luck may you never shun |
That the widow’s curse might melt you like snow in the sun |
The cries of those orphans whose murmurs you shall never sheen |
For the loss of their own dear fathers who died on the green |
Some of our boys to the hills they have run away |
Some of them have been shot and more have run off to sea |
Michael Dwyer of the mountain has plenty of cause for the spleen |
For the loss of his own dear comrades who died on the green |
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