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The Patriot Game lyrics
(Billy Behen)
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.
Part of these releases
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- Track 16 on The Essential Kingston Trio Disc 2
- 15 Reverend Mr. Black
- 17 Hobo's Lullaby
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- Track 19 on Capitol Collectors Series
- 18 Ally Ally Oxen Free
- 20 Seasons In The Sun
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- Track 13 on New Frontier/Time to Think
- 12 The New Frontier
- 14 Coal Tattoo
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- Track 14 on The Capitol Years Disc 4
- 13 Rider
- 15 Coal Tattoo
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- Track 1 on Time to Think
- 2 Coal Tattoo
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