Lyrics The Easter Lily / The Foxhunters Reel - Derek Warfield & the Young Wolfe Tones

The Easter Lily / The Foxhunters Reel

You can wear an Easter lily for the men who fought and died
You can wear an Easter lily for the women by their side
You can wear an Easter lily for the heroes of '16
Who gave us back our dignity and pride and self esteem
You can wear an Easter lily for the women of the fight
Webley Winnie and Liz Furrow and the Contas tall and bright
You can wear an Easter lily for the patriots of the past
Although they failed, the inspiration left by them would last
You can wear an Easter lily for the men who fought and died
You can wear an Easter lily for the women by their side
You can wear an Easter lily for the heroes of '16
Who gave us back our dignity and pride and self esteem
You can wear an Easter lily to rekindle Fenian faith
And remember our great heroes of the year of '98
You can wear an Easter lily for the Fenian men so brave
Who died upon the scaffold for their countrymen to save
You can wear an Easter lily for the men who signed their name
For that mighty proclamation ended England’s rule of shame
Padraig Pearse, James Connolly, Thomas Clarke and Eamonn Kent
MacDermot and McDonagh, it’s from God that they were sent
You can wear an Easter lily for the men who fought and died
You can wear an Easter lily for the women by their side
You can wear an Easter lily for the heroes of '16
Who gave us back our dignity and pride and self esteem
You can wear an Easter lily for the free birds that have flown
Francis Hughes, Bobby Sands, and Sean South from Garryowen
You can wear an Easter lily for the volunteers with pride
For Ned Daley, and O’Halleran, John Houston, and McBride
You can wear an Easter lily for the heroes of our time
Thomas Ash, Michael Gunn, and McSweeney and Devine
You can wear an Easter lily for the future of our land
To see it reunited, free from England’s violent hand
You can wear an Easter lily for the men who fought and died
You can wear an Easter lily for the women by their side
You can wear an Easter lily for the heroes of '16
Who gave us back our dignity and pride and self esteem
You can wear an Easter lily for the saintly hordes who died
In the years of great hunger, Trevelyan’s genocide
You can wear an Easter lily for the children’s starving tears
And the mothers who watched helplessly in action by their peers
You can wear an Easter lily for the scaffold and the jails
And the folks who fled in terror and in desperation sailed
You can wear an Easter lily for the exiles that have flown
And let them know that Ireland will always be their home
You can wear an Easter lily for the men who fought and died
You can wear an Easter lily for the women by their side
You can wear an Easter lily for the heroes of '16
Who gave us back our dignity and pride and self esteem
You can wear an Easter lily for the men who fought and died
You can wear an Easter lily for the women by their side
You can wear an Easter lily for the heroes of '16
Who gave us back our dignity and pride and self esteem