Who Is Irelands Enemy
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Afinação: E A D G B ECapotraste:
2nd traste
[Intro]
D A G D A D
D
Oh, who is Ireland's enemy?
A
Not Germany, nor Spain,
G D
Not Russia, France nor Austria;
A D
They forged for her no chains,
Nor quenched her hearths, Nor razed her homes,
A
Nor laid her altars low,
G D
Nor sent her sons to tramp the hills
A D
Amid the winter snow.
D
Who murdered kingly Shane O'Neill?
A
Who poisoned Owen Roe?
G D
Who struck Red Hugh O'Donnell down?
A D
Who filled our land with woe
By night and day - a thousand times,
A
In twice four hundred years -
G D
Till every blade of Irish grass
A D
Was wet with blood and tears
D
Who spiked the heads of Irish priests
A
On Dublin Castle's gate?
G D
Who butchered helpless Irish babes,
A D
A lust for blood to sate?
Who outraged Irish maidenhood,
A
And tortured aged sires,
G D
And spread from Clare to Donegal
A D
The glare of midnight fires?
D
Who scourged our land in Ninety-Eight,
A
Spread torment far and wide,
G D
Till Ireland shrieked in woe and pain,
A D
And Hell seemed fair beside?
Who plied the pitch-cap and the sword,
A
The gibbet and the rack?
G D
Oh God! that we should ever fail
A D
To pay those devils back.
D
Who slew the three in Manchester,
A
One grim November dawn,
G D
While 'round them howled sadistically
A D
The Devil's cruel spawn?
Who shattered many a Fenian mind
A
In dungeons o'er the foam,
G D
And broke the loyal Fenian hearts
A D
That pined for them at home?
D
Not Germany nor Austria,
A
Not Russia, France nor Spain
G D
That robbed and reaved this land of ours,
A D
And forged her heavy chains;
But England of the wily words –
A
A crafty, treacherous foe –
G D
'Twas England scourged our Motherland,
A D
'Twas England laid her low!
D
Rise up, oh dead of Ireland!
A
And rouse her living men,
G D
The chance will come to us at last
A D
To win our own again,
To sweep the English enemy
A
From hill and glen and bay,
G D
And in your name, oh Holy Dead,
A D
Our sacred debt to pay!
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