[00:00.00]The Rapparee - The Royal Showband
[00:08.22]My spurs are rusted my coat is rent my plume is damp
[00:13.97]With rain
[00:15.71]And the thistle down and the barley beard are thick on my
[00:21.09]Horses mane
[00:23.31]But my rifle's as bright as my sweetheart's eye my arm
[00:28.33]Is strong and free
[00:31.09]What care have I for your king or laws I'm an outlawed
[00:36.39]Rapparee
[00:39.12]Lift your glasses friends with mine and give your hand to
[00:45.08]Me
[00:46.35]I'm England's foe I'm Ireland's friend I'm an outlawed
[00:51.70]Rapparee I'm an outlawed rapparee
[00:58.77]Hunted from out is father's home pursued by steel and shot
[01:06.10]A bloody warfare we must wage or the gibbet be our lot
[01:14.08]Hurrah this war is welcome work the hunted outlaw knows
[01:21.76]He steps unto his country's love o'er the corpses of his foes
[01:29.68]Lift your glasses friends with mine and give your hand to me
[01:37.25]I'm England's foe I'm Ireland's friend I'm an outlawed rapparee
[01:45.00]I'm an outlawed rapparee
[01:49.16]The mountain cavern is my home up high in the crystal
[01:55.30]Air
[01:56.84]My bed of limestone iron ribbed and the brown heath
[02:02.09]Smelling fair
[02:04.84]Let George or William only send his troops to burn or
[02:10.95]Loot
[02:12.65]We'll meet them up on equal ground and we'll fight them
[02:17.81]Foot by foot
[02:20.51]Lift your glasses friends with mine and give your hand to me
[02:28.03]I'm England's foe I'm Ireland's friend I'm an outlawed rapparee
[02:35.90]I'm an outlawed rapparee
[02:39.93]I'm England's foe I'm Ireland's friend I'm an outlawed rapparee
[02:47.56]I'm an outlawed rapparee