The Patriot Game (Remastered)

The Patriot Game (Remastered) - The Kingston Trio

Come all you young rebels

And list while we sing

For the love of one's country

Is a terrible thing

It banishes fear with the speed of a flame

And it makes us all part of the patriot game

My name is O'hannon and I've just gone sixteen

My home is in Monaghan where I was weaned

I've learned all my life cruel England's to blame

And so I'm a part of the patriot game

This ireland of ours has for long been half free

Six counties are under John bull's tyranny

So we gave up our boyhood to drill

And to train

Play our own part in the patriot game

And now as I lie here my body all holes

I think of those traitors who bargained in souls

I wish that my rifle had given the same to those quislings

Who sold out the patriot game