Irish Song Lyrics 
from www.traditionalmusic.co.uk 
BOYS OF KILLMICHAEL 
WHILST WE HONOUR IN SONG AND IN STORY THE MEMORY OF PEARSE AND MCBRIDE WHOSE NAMES ARE ILLUMINED IN GLORY WITH MARTYERS WHO LONG SINCE HAVE DIED FORGET NOT THE BOYS OF KILLMICHAEL THOSE BRAVE LADS SO GALLANT AND TRUE WHO FOUGHT NEATH THE GREEN FLAG OF ERIN AND CONQUERED THE RED WHITE AND BLUE 
THEN HERE'S TO THE BOYS OF KILLMICHAEL WHO FEARED NOT THE MIGHT OF THE FOE THE DAY THE MARCHED INTO BATTLE AND LAID ALL THE BLACK N TAN LOW 
ON THE THWENTY EIGHT DAY OF NOVEMBER THE TANS LEFT THE TOWN O MACROON THEY WERE SEATED IN TWO CROSSLEY TENDERS WHICH LED THEM RIGHT TO THEIR DOOM THEY WERE ON THE ROAD TO KILLMICHAEL AND NEVER EXPECTED TO STALL THEY THERE MET THE BOYS OF THE COLUMN WHO MADE A CLEAR SWEEP OF THEM ALL 
CHORUS 
THE SUN IN THE WEST IT IS SINKING 'TWAS THE EVE OF A COLD WINTERS DAY WHEN THE TANS WE WERE EAGERLY WAITING SAILED INTO THE SPOT WHERE WE LAY AND OVER THE HILLS WENT THE ECHO THE PEEL OF THE RIFLE AND GUN AND THE FLAMES FROM THEIR LORRIES GAVE TIDINGS THAT THE BOYS OF THE COLUMN HAD WON 
CHORUS 
THE LORRIES WERE OURS BEFORE TWILIGHT AND HIGH OVER DUNMANWAY TOWN OUR BANNERS OF TRIUMPH WERE WAVING TO SHOW THAT THE TANS HAD GONE DOWN WE GATHERED OUR RIFLES AND BAYONETS AND SOON LEFT THE GLEN SO OBSCURE AND NEVER DREW REIN TILL WE HALTED AT THE FAR AWAY CAMP OF GLENURE 
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