Song Name: | A Nation Once Again | By: | The Clancy Brothers / The Dubliners / The Wolfe Tones |
Posted By: | slonick-susanin | Difficulty: | Any |
Key: | G | Genre: | Irish |
Harp Type: | Diatonic | ||
Created: | 2009-05-23 15:05:00 | Modified: | 2009-05-23 15:05:37 |
Song: | by Thomas Osborne Davis
6 6 (6) (7)7 (7) 7 8 8 (8) 7 When boyhood's fire was in my blood (7) (6) (8) 7(7)(6)(7) (8) 7 I read of ancient freemen, 6 6 (6)(7) 7 (7) 7 8 (8) 7 For Greece and Rome who bravely stood, (7) (6) (8) 7(7) (6)(7) (6) 6 Three hundred men and three men; 6 6 (6) (7) 7(8) 6 6 Then I prayed I yet might see 6 (6) (7) 7 (8) 8 Our fetters rent in twain, 7(7) (6) (6) (9) 8 (8) 7 (7) And Ireland, long a province, be. (6) 6 8 (8) 7 7 A Nation once again! 6 8 (8) 7 (7)(6) A Nation once again, (6)(9) 8 (8) 7 (7) A Nation once again, (6) 6 (6) (7) 7 (7)7 (6) (8) (7) And lreland, long a province, be 7(8) 8 (9) (8) 7 7 A Nation once again! And from that time, through wildest woe, That hope has shone a far light, Nor could love's brightest summer glow Outshine that solemn starlight; It seemed to watch above my head In forum, field and fane, Its angel voice sang round my bed, A Nation once again! It whisper'd too, that freedom's ark And service high and holy, Would be profaned by feelings dark And passions vain or lowly; For, Freedom comes from God's right hand, And needs a Godly train; And righteous men must make our land A Nation once again! So, as I grew from boy to man, I bent me to that bidding My spirit of each selfish plan And cruel passion ridding; For, thus I hoped some day to aid, Oh, can such hope be vain ? When my dear country shall be made A Nation once again! |