Rock On Rockall Lyrics

Words and Music: B.Warfield
Oh the Empire it is finished
No foreign lands to seize
So the greedy eye of England
I stirring towards the seas
Two hundred miles from Donegal
There's a place that's called Rockall
And the groping hands of Whitehall
Are grabbing at it's walls.
Chorus:
Oh rock on Rockall you'll never fall
For Britains greedy hands
Oh you'll meet the same resistance
Like you did in many lands
May the Seagulls rise and pluck your eyes
And the water crush your shell
And the natural gas will burn your a*s
And blow you all to hell
This rock is part of Ireland
For it's written in folklore
When Finn McCool took a sod of gra*s
He threw it to the fore
When he tossed a pebble across the sea
Where ever did it fall
For the sod became the Isle of Man
Now the pebble's called Rockall
Chorus...
Oh the seas will not be silent
While Britannia grabs the waves
And remember that the Irish
Will no longer be your slaves
And remember that Britannia well
She rules the waves no more
So keep your hands off Rockall
It's Irish to the core.
Chorus...

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