
Date of issue: 19.07.2016
Record label: TY4TM
Song language: English
The Saxon Shilling |
Hark! |
a martial sound is heard— |
The march of soldiers, fifing, drumming; |
Eyes are staring, hearts are stirr’d |
For bold recruits the brave are coming. |
Ribands flaunting, feathers gay |
The sounds and sights are surely thrilling, |
Dazzl’d village youths to-day |
Will crowd to take the Saxon Shilling. |
Ye, whose spirits will not bow |
In peace to parish tyrants longer |
Ye, who wear the villain brow, |
And ye who pine in hopeless hunger |
Fools, without the brave man’s faith |
All slaves and starvelings who are willing |
To sell yourselves to shame and death |
Accept the fatal Saxon Shilling. |
Go—to find, 'mid crime and toil, |
The doom to which such guilt is hurried; |
Go—to leave on Indian soil |
Your bones to bleach, accurs’d, unburied! |
Go—to crush the just and brave, |
Whose wrongs with wrath the world are filling; |
Go—to slay each brother slave, |
Or spurn the blood-stained Saxon Shilling! |
Irish hearts! |
why should you bleed, |
To swell the tide of British glory |
Aiding despots in their need, |
Who’ve changed our green so oft to gory? |
None, save those who wish to see |
The noblest killed, the meanest killing, |
And true hearts severed from the free, |
Will take again the Saxon Shilling! |
Irish youths! |
reserve your strength |
Until an hour of glorious duty, |
When Freedom’s smile shall cheer at length |
The land of bravery and beauty. |
Bribes and threats, oh, heed no more |
Let nought but Justice make you willing |
To leave your own dear Island shore, |
For those who send the Saxon Shilling. |
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