Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song A Soldier's Wife, artist - The Wolfe Tones. Album song Till Ireland a Nation, in the genre Кельтская музыка
Date of issue: 31.12.1973
Record label: Celtic Collections
Song language: English
A Soldier's Wife |
The tribune’s tongue and poet’s pen |
May sow the seed in prostrate men |
For it is a soldier’s sword alone |
Can reap the crops so bravely sown |
No more I’ll sing |
No more I’ll pine |
But train my soul to lead a line |
A soldier’s life is the life for me |
A soldier’s death can Ireland’s free |
No foe would fear your thunder words |
If it were not for your lightning source |
If tyrants yield while millions pray |
'Tis less they link in war’s array |
Nor peace itself is safe but when |
The sword is yielded by fighting men |
A soldier’s life is the life for me |
A soldier’s death can Ireland free |
The rifle brown and sabre bright |
Can freely speak and nobly write |
What prophet taught to grieve so well |
As Hofer, Breen, Bruce and Tell? |
God guard the creed those heroes taught |
That blood-fought freedom is cheaply bought |
A soldier’s life is the life for me |
A soldier’s death can Ireland free |
Yet it is not strength and it is not steel |
Alone can make the English reel |
But wisdom working day by day |
'Til comes a time for passion’s sway |
The patient din and powder shot |
Can knock an empire like a rock |
A soldier’s life is the life for me |
A soldier’s death can Ireland free |
A soldier’s life is the life for me |
A soldier’s death can Ireland free |