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1916 Ireland & the Western Front05. The Grand Aul’ Dame Britannia World War I anti-enlistment song, written by Sean O’Casey in 1916The Alias Acoustic Band Irish Songs, Tunes, Poetry and Speech of Rebellion, Resistance & Reconciliation, CD, 1998, Proper/Retro, R2CD 40-73Ah, what is all the fuss about,Says the grand aul’ dame Britannia,Is it us you’re trying to live without,Says the grand aul’ dame Britannia.Oh, don’t believe those Sinn Fein lies,For every Gael for England dies,Will enjoy ‘Home Rule’ ’neath the Irish skies,Says the grand aul’ dame Britannia.O Redmond has the battle won,Says the grand aul’ dame Britannia.He has finished what Wolfe Tone begun,Says the grand aul’ dame Britannia.Though Shinners through the country stalk,Here’s sixty-seven and Bachelors Walk,Did you ever hear such foolish talk,Says the grand aul’ dame Britannia.You’ll want to knock a pound off me,Says the grand aul’ dame Britannia.For Hibernian’s Academy,Says the grand aul’ dame Britannia.But first I’ve got the Hun to quell,And I need your gold for shot and shell,And your artists all can go to hell,Says the grand aul’ dame Britannia.Scholars, authors, saints and bards,Says the grand aul’ dame Britannia.Come along and enlist in the Irish Guards,Says the grand aul’ dame Britannia.Everyman who treads the German beat,Will get a parcel tied up neat,A Home Rule badge and a wind-up sheet,Says the grand aul’ dame Britannia.IiS, Irish history in song 1 & 2, page 6
06. The Foggy Dew Written in 1919 by a member of the First Dáil moved by the absence of members ‘locked up by the foreigner’No named artistesThe Complete Irish National Anthem, CD, 1998, Derry Records, IRB 1937CDAs down the glen one Easter mornThrough a city fair rode I.There armed lines of marching men,In squadrons did pass me by.No pipe did hum, no battle drum,Did sound out its loud tattoo.But the angelus bell o’er the Liffey’s swell,Rang out through the foggy dew.Right proudly high over Dublin townThey flung out the flag of war.’Twas far better to die ’neath an Irish sky,Than at Suvla or Sud el Bar.And from the plains of royal Meath,Brave men came hurrying through,While Britannia’s Huns with their long-range guns,Sailed into the foggy dew.But the night fell black and the rifle’s crack,Made perfidious Albion reel.Through that leaden hail seven tongues of flame,Did shine o’er the lines of steel.By each shining blade a prayer was said,That to Ireland her sons would be true,And when morning broke, still the green flag shook out,Its folds in the foggy dew.It was England bade our Wild Geese go,That small nations might be free.But their lonely graves are by Suvla’s wavesOn the fringe of the great North Sea.Oh, had they died by Pearse’s sideOr had fought along with brave Cathal Brugha,Their names we would keep where the Fenians sleep,’Neath the shroud of the foggy dew.But the bravest fell and the requiem knell,Rang out mournfully and clear,For those who died that EastertideIn the springtime of the year.While the world did gaze with deep amaze,At those fearless men and few,Who bore the fight that freedom’s light,Might shine through the foggy dew.As back through the glen I rode again,And my heart with grief was sore.For I parted then with those gallant men,I ever will see no more,And to and fro in my dreams I go,And I’ll kneel and I’ll say a prayer for you,For slavery fled, oh you gallant dead,When you fell in the foggy dew.IiS, Irish history in song 1 & 2, page 7
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