THE IRISH BRIGADE – Roll Of Honour

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Scale: G Major
Time Signature: 4/4
Tempo: 117
INTRO G Em G D G
G                           C                   G
Read the roll of honour for Ireland's bravest men
G           Em           A          D
We must be united in memory of the ten,
G                                  C                    G
England you're a monster, I don't think that you have won
G   C         Em      G        D         G
We will never be defeated while Ireland has such sons.
G                      C                      G
In those dreary H-Block cages ten brave young Irishmen lay
G                 Em            A                 D
Hungering for justice as their young lives ebbed away,
G                                C                 G
For their rights as Irish soldiers and to free their native land
G     C            G Em        G        D     G
They stood beside their leader - the gallant Bobby Sands.
G                               C                  G
Now they mourn Hughes in Bellaghy, Ray McCreesh in Armagh's hills
G                 Em        A            D
In those narrow streets of Derry they miss O'Hara still,
G                                C                G
They so proudly gave their young lives to break Britannia's hold
G        C         G  Em    G   D     G
Their names will be remembered as history unfolds.
[CHORUS]
G                           C                   G
Read the roll of honour for Ireland's bravest men
G           Em           A          D
We must be united in memory of the ten,
G                                  C                    G
England you're a monster, I don't think that you have won
G   C           Em      G          D         G
We will never be defeated while Ireland has such sons.
G                                            C                    G
Through the war torn streets of Ulster the black flags did sadly sway
G                      Em          A             D
To salute ten Irish martyrs the bravest of the brave,
G                               C              G
Joe McDonnell, Martin Hurson, Kevin Lynch, Kieran Doherty
C         G  Em     G           D G
They gave their lives for freedom with Thomas McElwee.
G                          C                     G
Michael Devine from Derry you were the last to die
G             Em                 A               D
With your nine brave companions with the martyred dead you lie
G                          C                   G
Your souls cry out "Remember, our deaths were not in vain.
G             C        G    Em    D           G
Fight on and make our homeland a nation once again !"
[CHORUS]
G                           C                   G
Read the roll of honour for Ireland's bravest men
G           Em           A          D
We must be united in memory of the ten,
G                                  C                    G
England you're a monster, I don't think that you have won
G   C           Em      G          D         G
We will never be defeated while Ireland has such sons.

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