Lyrics Tom Williams (Free at Last) - The Irish Brigade

Tom Williams (Free at Last)

On the second of September, 1942
At the age of nineteen years
The tenant, Tom Williams
Belfast brigade of the Irish Republican Army
Was hanged at Cromlin Road gaol
Not satisfied with having taken the life
Of this brave young Irish soldier
The British authorities buried his body in an unmarked grave
Within the prison walls
Almost sixty years of protest passed
Before the British government finally relented
And released the remains of this Irish patriot
Tom Williams was finally laid to rest
By his friends, family, and former comrades
On the nineteenth of January
In the year 2000
And now lies at peace in his mother’s grave
Close beside Ireland’s honoured dead
In Belfast’s Republican Plot
Time goes past as years roll onward
Still fresh in my memory I will keep
Of that night in Belfast prison
Unashamedly I saw men weep