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James Connolly
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Collected and Arranged by The Wolfe Tones
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The man was all shot through that came to day into the Barrack Square
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And a soldier I, I am not proud to say that we killed him there
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They brought him from the prison hospital and to see him in that chair
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I swear his smile would, would far more quickly call a man to prayer
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Maybe, maybe I don't understand this thing that makes these rebels die
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Yet all men love freedom and the spring clear in the sky
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I wouldn't do this deed again for all that I hold by
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As I gazed down my rifle at his breast but then, then a soldier I.
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They say he was different, kindly too apart from all the rest.
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A lover of the poor-his wounds ill dressed.
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He faced us like a man who knew a greater pain
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Than blows or bullets ere the world began: died he in vain
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Ready, Present, and him just smiling, Christ I felt my rifle shake
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His wounds all open and around his chair a pool of blood
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And I swear his lips said, "fire" before my rifle shot that cursed lead
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And I, I was picked to kill a man like that, James Connolly
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A great crowd had gathered outside of Kilmainham
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Their heads all uncovered, they knelt to the ground.
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For inside that grim prison
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Lay a great Irish soldier
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His life for his country about to lay down.
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He went to his death like a true son of Ireland
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The firing party he bravely did face
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Then the order rang out: Present arms and fire
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James Connolly fell into a ready-made grave
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The black flag was hoisted, the cruel deed was over
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Gone was the man who loved Ireland so well
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There was many a sad heart in Dublin that morning
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When they murdered James Connolly-. The Irish rebel
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