[00:00.00]A Soldier's Song - The Wolfe Tones
[00:08.22]I went away to fight a war
[00:11.73]That small nations might be free
[00:15.60]Got a soldiers guns and uniform to fight the enemy
[00:23.47]I was trained to shoot my fellow before he got to me
[00:31.29]And I danced with death in the mud and wept
[00:35.49]And prayed my home to see
[00:38.82]So come over to me darling girl
[00:43.37]Come here me Molly dear
[00:46.64]You are as welcome as the flowers
[00:50.13]In may you're welcome here to me
[00:55.13]No more I'll fire the musket shot
[00:58.95]Or hear the cannon roar
[01:02.79]I've done my time now you'll be mine
[01:06.78]I'm yours for ever more
[01:10.57]While in the trenches there
[01:13.51]I thought who starts these bloody wars
[01:18.62]And thought of these great Irishmen
[01:22.41]Who died on these strange shores
[01:26.10]Then a bomb did burst to the air it trust
[01:30.18]Some shrapnel fire and blood
[01:33.88]I escaped it then shot back at them
[01:38.24]And lay back in the mud
[01:41.38]So come over to me darling girl
[01:45.97]Come here me Molly dear
[01:49.27]You are as welcome as the flowers
[01:52.95]In may you're welcome here to me
[01:57.66]No more I'll fire the musket shot
[02:01.62]Or hear the cannon roar
[02:05.49]I've done my time now you'll be mine
[02:09.37]I'm yours for ever more
[02:21.37]While I was off in foreign lands
[02:24.86]Fighting other peoples' wars
[02:28.74]Some gallant men were fighting
[02:32.21]Here to free their native shore
[02:36.55]You shot our leaders of 16
[02:40.45]Saw our city sacked and burned
[02:44.42]Then you sent us in the Black
[02:47.72]And Tans to greet our home return
[02:51.86]So come over to me darling girl
[02:56.37]Come here me Molly dear
[02:59.82]You are as welcome as the flowers
[03:03.26]In may you're welcome here to me
[03:08.21]No more I'll fire the musket shot
[03:11.97]Or hear the cannon roar
[03:15.89]I've done my time now you'll be mine
[03:19.84]I'm yours for ever more
[03:23.56]I don't need your heroes welcome
[03:27.39]I don't want your bugle call
[03:31.83]No brass band no pipes and drums
[03:35.44]No medal badge or star
[03:39.54]But give me what you promised me
[03:43.35]When first I went to war
[03:47.19]That's freedom for old Ireland
[03:51.03]And I'll go to fight no more
[03:54.38]So come over to me darling girl
[03:59.01]Come here me Molly dear
[04:02.23]You are as welcome as the flowers
[04:05.88]In may you're welcome here to me
[04:10.53]No more I'll fire the musket shot
[04:14.57]Or hear the cannon roar
[04:18.56]I've done my time now you'll be mine
[04:22.43]I'm yours for ever more