Lyrics Robert Emmet - Dublin City Ramblers

Robert Emmet

Old Ireland surrounded by sadness and gloom
And I Robert Emmet awaiting my doom
Bold Robert Emmet the darling of Erin
Bold Robert Emmet he’ll die with a smile
I’ll lay down my life for the Emerald Isle
Hung drawn and quartered sure that was my sentence
But soon I will show them no coward am I
My crime was the love of a land I was born
A hero I lived and a hero I’ll die
I was arrested and cased into prison
Tried as a traitor a rebel a spy
But no one can call me a knave or a coward
For a hero I lived and a hero I’ll die
Hark the bells tolling I well know the meaning
My poor heart tells me it is my death knell
In come the clergy the warden is leading
I have no friends here to bid me farewell
So good bye to old Ireland my parents and sweetheart
Companions in arms to forget you must try
I was proud of the honour it was only my duty
A hero I lived and a hero I’ll die.
Erin, mo mhuirnin, my love and my country!
Ireland, my Ireland, though dead I shall be
Hear now the words of my final oration:
Write me no epitaph ‘til my country is free!