Blood-Stained Bandage

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A cold May morning was breaking over Dublin's dreary town

Sixteen brave men have fallen to the rifles of the crown

Because they loved their country and served it night and day

Before they faced those rifles this is what those boys did say.

[chorus]

Take away the blood-stained bandage from off an Irish brow

We fought and bled for Ireland and will not shirk it now

We have held in her struggle, in answer to her call

And because we sought to free her we are placed against a wall.

Ned Daly, Heuston, Colbert, Mac Donagh and Mac Bride

Mac Dermott and the brothers Ceannt, with Clarke and Plunkett died

Mick Mallin, Pat and Willy Pearse, O'Hanrahan and Kent

And last of all James Connolly this message to them sent.