Ira! - A Soldiers Song lyrics

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We'll sing a song, a soldier's song,<br />

With cheering rousing chorus,<br />

As round our blazing fires we throng,<br />

The starry heavens o'er us;<br />

Impatient for the coming fight,<br />

And as we wait the morning's light,<br />

Here in the silence of the night,<br />

We'll chant a soldier's song. <br />

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Chorus: <br />

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Soldiers are we<br />

whose lives are pledged to Ireland;<br />

Some have come<br />

from a land beyond the wave.<br />

Sworn to be free,<br />

No more our ancient sire land<br />

Shall shelter the despot or the slave.<br />

Tonight we man the gap of danger<br />

In Erin's cause, come woe or weal<br />

'Mid cannons' roar and rifles peal,<br />

We'll chant a soldier's song. <br />

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In valley green, on towering crag,<br />

Our fathers fought before us,<br />

And conquered 'neath the same old flag<br />

That's proudly floating o'er us.<br />

We're children of a fighting race,<br />

That never yet has known disgrace,<br />

And as we march, the foe to face,<br />

We'll chant a soldier's song. <br />

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Chorus <br />

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Sons of the Gael! Men of the Pale!<br />

The long watched day is breaking;<br />

The serried ranks of Inisfail<br />

Shall set the Tyrant quaking.<br />

Our camp fires now are burning low;<br />

See in the east a silv'ry glow,<br />

Out yonder waits the Saxon foe,<br />

So chant a soldier's song. <br />

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Chorus