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Wolfe Tones
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O, Father dear, I ofttimes heard you talk of Erin's Isle
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Her valleys green, her lofty scene, her mountains rude and wild
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You said it was a pleasant place wherein a prince might dwell
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Why have you then forsaken her, the reason to me tell?
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My son, I loved our native land with energy and pride
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Until a blight fell on the land and sheep and cattle died
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The rents and taxes were to pay, I could not them redeem
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And that's the cruel reason why I left Old Skibbereen
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It's well I do remember on a bleak November's day
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The landlord and his agent came to drive us all away
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He set my house on fire with his demon yellow spleen
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And that's another reason why I left Old Skibbereen
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Your mother, too, God rest her soul, lay on the snowy ground
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She fainted in her anguish of the desolation round
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She never rose, but went her way from life to death's long dream
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And found a quiet grave, my boy, in lovely Skibbereen
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It's well I do remember the year of forty-eight
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When we arose with Erin's boys to fight against our fate
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I was hunted through the mountains as a traitor to the Queen
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And that's another reason that I left Old Skibbereen
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Oh father dear, the day will come when vengeance loud will call
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And we'll arise with Erin's boys and rally one and all
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I'll be tbe man to lead the van, beneath our flag of green
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And loud and high we'll raise the cry, "Revenge for Skibbereen!"
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