Merry Ploughboy

Merry Ploughboy - Irish All-Stars

I am a merry ploughboy

And I plough the fields all day

When the sudden thought came to my mind

That I should roam away

I always hated slavery

Since the day that I was born

So I am off to join the I R A

And I am off tomorrow morn

And we're all off to Dublin in the green

In the green

Where the helmets glisten in the sun

Where the bay'nets flash and the riffles crash

To the echo of a Thompson gun

I'll leave beside my old grey call

I'll leave beside my plough

I'll leave aside my horse and yoke

No more I need them now

I'll take my short revolver

And the bandoller of lead

I live or die I can but try

To avenge my country's men

And we're all off to Dublin in the green

In the green

Where the helmets glisten in the sun

Where the bay'nets flash and the riffles crash

To the echo of a Thompson gun

I'll leave aside my Mary

She's the girl that I do adore

And I wonder if she'll think of me

When she hears the cannon roar

And when the war is over

And dear old Ireland is free

I'll take her to the church to wed

And a rebel's wife she'll be

And we're all off to Dublin in the green

In the green

Where the helmets glisten in the sun

Where the bay'nets flash and the riffles crash

To the echo of a Thompson gun