O'Donnell Aboo Lyrics
O'Donnell Aboo - The Clancy Brothers/Tommy Makem
Proudly the note of the trumpet is sounding
Loudly the war cries arise on the gale
Fleetly the steed by Lough Swilly is bounding
To join the thick squadrons in Saimears green vale
On every mountaineer strangers to flight and fear
Rush to the standards of dauntless Red Hugh
Bonnaught and gallow glass throng from each mountain pass;
On for old Erin "O'Donnell Ab oo "
Princely O'Neill to our aid is advancing
With many a chieftain and warrior clan
A thousand proud steeds in his vanguard are prancing
'Neath the borderers brave from the banks of the Bann;
Many a heart shall quail under it's coal of mail;
Deeply the merciless foreman shall rue
When on his ear shall ring borne on the breezes' wing
Tir Connell's dread war-cry "O'Donnell Aboo "
Wildly o'er Desmond the war-wolf is howling
Fearless the eagle sweeps over the plain
The fox in the streets of the city is prowling;
All all who would scare them are banished or slain
On with O'Donnell then fight the old fight again
Sons of Tir Connell all valiant and true
Make the false Saxon feel Erin's avenging steel
Strike for your country "O'Donnell Aboo "