Ballad of the Boyne

Well my name it is Dan Sullivan.

I know you'll not have heard of me.

The farmin in West Cork m'lads;

It was not my destiny.

At the tender age of twenty one I left my native home.

Up the rocky road towards Dublin Town I was inclined to roam.

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So it's good bye to Cork City

Twice fare well to Limerick town.

So long to girls from Kerry.

They will not find me around.

I am headed north of Dublin

Where strange forces once did join,

And King Jimmy and King Billy fought

The Battle of the Boyne.

It was in 1689 James stepped onto the sod

He had Irish, Germans, Jacobites

Who said prayers to the same God.

They landed in Kinsale and

Sarsfield was with them there.

They thought Jim would reclaim the throne

In maybe half a year.

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You may talk about your Gettysburg and also Waterloo.

What other fight did cause more grief

Even after it was through?

Now all down through the centuries

We've had to scrape for every coin

Since Billy won his vict'try at

The Battle of the Boyne.

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Now i am lying here in Flanders Field

Where brave Sarsfield met release.

I am just another Irish lad

One of the Wild Geese.

Barbed wire's all around me and

The bombs and the bullets fly.

I wish it was for Ireland

If i am about to die.

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for my Dublin buddy, Steve Lindsay.

on his birth day.

have a good one, bro.

K.H.