Irish Song Lyrics 
from www.traditionalmusic.co.uk 
BLOOD-STAINED BANDAGE 
A cold May morning was breaking over Dublin's dreary town Sixteen brave men have fallen to the rifles of the crown Because they loved their country and served it night and day Before they faced those rifles this is what those boys did say 
Take away the blood-stained bandage from off an Irish brow We fought and bled for Ireland and will not shirk it now We have held in her struggle, in answer to her call And because we sought to free her we are placed against a wall 
Ned Daly, Heuston, Colbert, Mac Donagh and Mac Bride Mac Dermott and the brothers Ceannt, with Clarke and Plunkett died Mick Mallin, Pat and Willy Pearse, O'Hanrahan and Kent And last of all James Connolly this message to them sent 
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