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Gallant Band

Leave me alone

On the hills of Shinrowan

To talk to the bold Fennian men They're fighting here

And they're fighting everywhere Is there nothing left but despair?

They're meeting in the halls

They're marching on the Dail

There seems to be no peaceful common ground
I hear some people say

Too much a price to pay

For peace and freedom and for liberty

let us praise those men of glory

And listen to the stories

Of Collins, Pearce, and Plunkett

And all that gallant band

We will rally around the flag boys

And always keep our heads high

It won't be long before we're
A nation once again

The time has long gone past

We're getting no where fast

They're taking all the heat at Downing Street

Dublins' Tachta Dail

It's time you made your call

For freedom and for justice one and all

I'm now far away

It's here I want to stay

Because of all that fear and disarray

I hope someday there'll be a home for you and me

Back here in the Isle of Innisfree