Listen to Roddy McCorley song with lyrics from The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem

Roddy McCorley

The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem30 Apr 2015

Roddy McCorley Lyrics

 

Bold O'donahue - The Clancy Brothers/Tommy Makem

O see the fleet-foot host of men

Who speek with faces want

 

From farmstead and from fisher's cot

 

Along the banks of ban

 

They come with vengeance in their eyes

Too late too late are

They

 

For young Roddy Mccorley goes to die on the bridge of too to

Today

 

Up the narrow street he stepped

 

So smiling proud and young

 

About the hemp-rope on his neck

The golden ringlets clung

 

There's ne'er a tear in his blue eyes

Fearless and brave are

They

 

As young Roddy Mccorley goes to die on the bridge of too to

Today

 

When he last this trod street

His shining pike in hand

Behind him marched in grim array

A stalwart earnest band

The antrim town the antrim town

He led them to the fray

But young Roddy Mccorley goes to die on the bridge of too to today

There's never a one of all your dead more bravely died in fray

Than he who marches to his fate and mebridge town today

True to the last true to the last he treads the upwards way

 

And young Roddy Mccorley goes to die on the bridge of too to today

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