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It was back in history's page, the story's told Of a Napper Tandy brave and bold With his scarlet and green, he then was seen With his nig long gun his fighting men And they beat at the drum, they fired their gun And the shook the English establishment And the Lords and the Peers, they then took fear And Grattan got his Parliment So here's to those great Protestant Men Who gave their lives to free our land All the people they sang their praises then For those brave United Irishmen In Belfast town their lived a man And his name was Samuek Neilson A Minister's son, Presbyterian, And the paper called the Northern Star And there was Henry Joy, the Green Volunteers And Thomas Russel and McCabe and McTeir To them was known a man Wolfe Tone And they formed the first United Men So here's to those great Protestant Men Who gave their lives to free our land All the people they sang their praises then For those brave United Irishmen Sow your laws with dragons tdeth And then you'll see That you have sowed the seeds of bigotry Be England's fool, divide they'll rule So they set to break the United Men And they killed them in the fields And some in jail, and some upon the gallows high When Willie Orr died his very last cry Was "Unite and fight brave Irishmen" So here's to those great Protestant Men Who gave their lives to free our land All the people they sang their praises then For those brave United Irishmen Cast dissensions to the wind, let all men lend To the common name of an Irishman For across history's page, to rant and rage Men crossed the pails of bigotry There were the men of 98' no sadder fate, Lord Edward, Tone and the brothers Sheres It was Emmet's plea in 18 and 3 When he tried to set our country free So here's to those great Protestant Men Who gave their lives to free our land All the people they sang their priaises then For those brave United Irishmen
Writer(s): Brian Warfield Lyrics powered by www.musixmatch.com
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