[Verse]
Well I have been a Provo for fifteen years or more,
With Armalites and mortar bombs, I thought I knew the score,
But now we have a weapon, that we've never used before,
The Brits are looking worried and they're going to worry more.

[Chorus]
Tiocfaidh ár lá, sing up the RA,
Ooh, ah, up the RA! Ooh, ah, up the RA!
SAM missiles in the sky.

[Verse]
I started off with petrol bombs and throwing bricks and stones,
With a hundred lads more like me, well I never was alone,
And soon I realised that bricks won't drive the Brits away,
And wasn't very long before, (Who did I join?), I joined the IRA.

[Chorus]
Tiocfaidh ár lá, sing up the RA,
Ooh, ah, up the RA! Ooh, ah, up the RA!
SAM missiles in the sky.

[Verse]
And then there came internment, in the year of '71,
The Brits thought we were beaten, that we were on the run,
On that early August morning, when they kicked in our back door,
But for every man they took away, (How many did they miss?), well they missed a thousand more.

[Chorus]
Tiocfaidh ár lá, sing up the RA,
Ooh, ah, up the RA! Ooh, ah, up the RA!
SAM missiles in the sky.

[Verse]
The eight years in the cages, I had time to think and plan,
Although they locked away a boy, sure I walked out a man,
There's only one thing that I have learned while in the cells I lay,
The Brits will never leave us, (Until when?), until they're blown away.

[Chorus]
Tiocfaidh ár lá, sing up the RA,
Ooh, ah, up the RA! Ooh, ah, up the RA!
SAM missiles in the sky.

[Chorus]
Tiocfaidh ár lá, sing up the RA,
Ooh, ah, up the RA! Ooh, ah, up the RA!
SAM missiles in the sky.

[Verse]
All through the days of hunger strike I watched my comrades die,
But in the streets of Belfast, you could hear the women cry,
I can't forget the massacre that Friday at Loughgall,
I salute my fallen comrades as I watch the choppers fall.

[Chorus]
Tiocfaidh ár lá, sing up the RA,
Ooh, ah, up the RA! Ooh ah up the RA!
SAM missiles in the sky.