Paddies Evermore - song lyrics 
American Old-time song lyrics from www.traditionalmusic.co.uk 
PADDIES EVERMORE. Tune- "Daddies Evermore." 
The hour is past to fawn or crouch As suppliants for our right; Let word and deed unshrinking vouch The banded millions might: Let them who scorned the fountain rill Now dread the torrent's roar, And hear our echoed chorus still, We're Paddies evermore. 
"What, though they menace? suffering men Their threats and them despise; Or promise justice once again? We know their words are lies: We stand resolved those rights to claim They robbed us of before, Our own dear nation and our name, As Paddies evermore. 
Look 'round-the Frenchman governs France, The Spaniard rules in Spain, The gallant Pole but waits his chance To break the Russian chain; The strife for freedom here begun We never will give o'er, Nor own a land on earth but one, We're Paddies evermore. 
That strong and single love to crush The despot ever tried; A fount it was whose living gush His hated arts defied. 'Tis fresh as when his foot accursed Was planted on our shore, And now and still, as from the first, We're Paddies evermore. 
What wrecked we though six hundred years Have o'er our thraldom rolled? The soul that roused O'Connor's spears Still lives as true and bold." The tide of foreign power to stem Our fathers bled of yore; And we stand here to-day, like them, True Paddies evermore. 
Where's our allegiance? With the land For which they nobly died; Our duty? By our cause to stand, Whatever chance betide; Our cherished hope? To heal the woes That rankle at her core; Our scorn and hatred? To her foes, Like Paddies evermore. 
The hour is past to fawn or crouch As suppliants for our right; Let word and deed unshrinking vouch The banded millions' might; Let them who scorned the fountain rill Now dread the torrent's roar. And hear our echoed chorus still, We're Paddies evermore.