Recorded by The Clancy Brothers & Lou Killen on "Save the Land"
Words and Music by Pat McGuigan
Suggested Key=G

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Armoured cars and tanks and guns
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Came to take away our sons
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But every man must stand behind
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The Men Behind the Wire

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Through the little streets of Belfast
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In the dark of early morn
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British soldiers came marauding
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Wrecking little homes with scorn.
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Heedless of the crying children
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Dragging fathers from their beds
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Beating sons while helpless mothers
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Watched the blood flow from their heads

Chorus

Not for them a judge or jury
Or indeed a crime at all
Being Irish means they're guilty
So we're guilty one and all

Round the world the truth will echo
CromweIl's men are here again
England's name again is sullied
In the eyes of honest men

Chorus

Proudly march behind our banners
Firmly stand behind our men
We will have them free to help us
Build a Nation once again

On the people stand together
Proudly firmly on your way
Never fear, and never falter
Till the boys are home to stay.

Chorus