It was back in history's page, the story's told of a Napper Tandy brave and
bold
With his scarlet and green, he then was seen with his big long gun his fighting men
And they beat at the drum,
they fired their gun and they shook the English establishment
And the Lords and the Peers they then put fears and Grattan
got his Parliament.
So here's to those great Protestant Men
Who gave their lives to free our land
All the people
sang their praises then
For those brave United Irishmen.
In Belfast town there lived a man and his name was Samuel
Neilson
A minister's son, Presbyterian, and the paper called the Northern Star
There was Henry Joy, the Green Volunteers
and Thomas Russell and McCabe and McTeir
And to them was known a man Wolfe Tone and they formed the first United Men.
So
here's to those great Protestant Men
Who gave their lives to free our land
All the people sang their praises then
For
those brave United Irishmen.
So you sow your laws with dragons teeth and soon you'll see that you've sowed the seeds
of bigotry
Be Englands fool divide they'll rule so they set to break the United Men
And they killed them in the fields
and some in jail and some upon the Gallows high
When Willie Orr died his very last cry was "Unite and fight brave Irishmen."
So
here's to those great Protestant Men
Who gave their lives to free our land
All the people sang their praises then
For
those brave United Irishmen.
Cast dissensions to the wind let all men lend to the common name of an Irishman
For
across historys page to rant and rage men crossed the pails of bigotry
There was the men of '98 no sadder fate, Lord Edward,
Tone and the brothers Sheres
It was Emmet's plea in 18 and 3 when he tried to set our country free.
So here's to
those great Protestant Men
Who gave their lives to free our land
All the people sang their praises then
For those
brave United Irishmen.