James Connolly Lyrics

The song James Connolly is performed by Wolfe Tones in the album named 25th Anniversary in the year 1991 .



Collected and Arranged by The Wolfe Tones
The man was all shot through that came to day into the Barrack Square
And a soldier I, I am not proud to say that we killed him there
They brought him from the prison hospital and to see him in that chair
I swear his smile would, would far more quickly call a man to prayer
Maybe, maybe I don't understand this thing that makes these rebels die
Yet all men love freedom and the spring clear in the sky
I wouldn't do this deed again for all that I hold by
As I gazed down my rifle at his breast but then, then a soldier I.
They say he was different, kindly too apart from all the rest.
A lover of the poor-his wounds ill dressed.
He faced us like a man who knew a greater pain
Than blows or bullets ere the world began: died he in vain
Ready, Present, and him just smiling, Christ I felt my rifle shake
His wounds all open and around his chair a pool of blood
And I swear his lips said, "fire" before my rifle shot that cursed lead
And I, I was picked to kill a man like that, James Connolly
A great crowd had gathered outside of Kilmainham
Their heads all uncovered, they knelt to the ground.
For inside that grim prison
Lay a great Irish soldier
His life for his country about to lay down.
He went to his death like a true son of Ireland
The firing party he bravely did face
Then the order rang out: Present arms and fire
James Connolly fell into a ready-made grave
The black flag was hoisted, the cruel deed was over
Gone was the man who loved Ireland so well
There was many a sad heart in Dublin that morning
When they murdered James Connolly-. the Irish rebel



Wolfe Tones - 25th Anniversary

Jul 1991

  1. Celtic Symphony
  2. The Merry Ploughboy
  3. Women Of Ireland
  4. Rock On Rockall
  5. The Foggy Dew
  6. James Connolly
  7. The Man From Mullingar
  8. Flow Liffey Waters
  9. First Of May
  10. The Piper That Played Before Moses
  11. Janie Mac I'm Nearly Forty
  12. Give Me Your Hand
  13. The Boys Of The Old Brigade
  14. Dingle Bay
  15. The Big Strong Man
  16. Monsignor Horan
  17. Boston Rose
  18. The Zoological Gardens
  19. The Broad Black Brimmer
  20. Newgrange (Bru Na Boinne)
  21. Treat Me Daughter Kindly
  22. Come Out Ye Black And Tans
  23. Slieve Na Mban
  24. Far Away In Australia
  25. Goodbye
  26. Helicopter Song
  27. An Dord Feinne (Oro Se Do Bheatha Abhaile)
  28. The Merman
  29. The Teddy Bear's Head
  30. Banna Strand
  31. Many Young Men Of Twenty
  32. The Wests' Awake

James Connolly