Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song Dunlavian Green, artist - Dolores Keane. Album song Night Owl, in the genre Музыка мира
Date of issue: 23.09.1997
Record label: Kirkelig Kulturverksted
Song language: English
Dunlavian Green |
In the year of one thousand seven hundred and ninety-eight |
A sorrowful tale, the truth unto you I’ll relate |
Thirty-six heroes to the world they were left to be seen |
By a false information were shot on Dunlavin Green |
Bad luck to you, Saunders, for you did their lives betray |
You said a parade would be held on that very same day |
Our drums, they did rattle, our fifes, they did sweetly play |
Surrounded we were and privately marched away |
Quite easy they led us like prisoners through the town |
To be shot on the plain, we first were forced to kneel down |
Such grief and such sorrow were never before there seen |
When the blood ran in the streams down the dykes of Dunlavin Green |
There is young Matty Farrell who has plenty of cause to complain |
Likewise the two Duffys who were shot down upon the plain |
Young Andy Ryan, his mother distracted will run |
For the loss of her darling, her only beloved son |
Some of our boys to the hills, they are going away |
Some of them shot and more of them going to sea |
Michael Dwyer in the mountains to Saunders, he owes a spleen |
For loss of his brothers who were shot on Dunlavin Green |
Bad luck to you, Saunders, bad luck may you never shun |
May the widow’s curse melt you like snow in the noonday sun |
Cries of the orphans, their murmurs you cannot screen |
For the loss of their fathers who were shot on Dunlavin Green |
In the year of one thousand seven hundred and ninety-eight |
A sorrowful tale, the truth unto you I’ll relate |
Thirty-six heroes to the world they were left to be seen |
By a false information were shot on Dunlavin Green |