[Verse]
Call me what you will and tell me what they say,
For tomorrow brings a new wind and the rain has gone away,
For within these walls, I see the sun as it shines o'er the hills,
Down into the valleys and amongst the daffodils.

[Chorus]
But when this war is over and I'll see your face again,
Then I'll tell you of the warriors who put death before revenge.

[Verse]
Here we starve in prison to support our fellow man,
We've only a woollen blanket and a crucifix in our hand,
Yet the screws harass and give us hell and our spirits they tried break,
Keep your chins up lads, keep marching on, we don't think she'll leave it too late.

[Chorus]
But when this war is over and I'll see your face again,
Then I'll tell you of the warriors who put death before revenge.

[Verse]
Bobby was the first to go, with Francis close behind,
The people streamed onto the streets, to have faith was not a crime,
And faith is what those men had when they chose to join our fight,
Though their actions were political, can't those bastards see we're right?

[Chorus]
But when this war is over and I'll see your face again,
Then I'll tell you of the warriors who put death before revenge.

[Verse]
Days rolled by and two more died, O'Hara and McCreesh,
Yet Thatcher chose to bite her lips, the toil was not to cease,
Still the barricades went up by day and those bullets they hummed by night,
How much longer will they keep this up, there is still no end in sight.

[Chorus]
But when this war is over and I'll see your face again,
Then I'll tell you of the warriors who put death before revenge.

[Chorus]
But when this war is over and I'll see your face again,
Then I'll tell you of the warriors who put death before revenge.

[Verse]
Tis a dreadful thing that those men joined our ranks of martyred braves,
That's ten too many coffin nails picked coldly to their graves,
If they only realised and Thatcher mark us well,
The ten more determined reasons for to break out of this hell.

[Chorus]
But when this war is over and I'll see your face again,
Then I'll tell you of the warriors who put death before revenge.

[Outro]
O'Hara, Hughes, McCreesh and Sands,
Doherty and Lynch,
McDonnell, Hurson, McElwee, Devine.