Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song The Patriot Game, artist - The Kingston Trio. Date of issue: 05.11.2019
Song language: English
The Patriot Game |
| Come all you young rebels and list while we sing for the love of one’s country |
| is a terrible thing |
| It banishes fear with the speed of a flame and it makes us all part of the |
| patriot game |
| My name is O’Hannon and I’ve just gone sixteen. |
| My home is in Monaghan where I |
| was weaned |
| I’ve learned all my life cruel England’s to blame and so I’m a part of the |
| patriot game |
| It’s barely two years since they wandered away and it was with the local |
| battalion of the bold IRA |
| For they’d read of our heroes and they wanted the same to play their own part |
| in the patriot game |
| This Ireland of ours has for long been half-free. |
| Six counties are under John |
| Bull’s tyranny |
| So, we gave up our boyhood to drill and to train and play our own part in the |
| patriot game |
| And now as I lie here, my body all holes, I think of those traitors who |
| bargained in souls |
| I wish that my rifle had given the same to those Quislings who sold out the |
| patriot game |