[Chorus]
Let us guide you spirit home,
We'll fly beside you till your journey's done,
We'll sing sweet melodies to thee,
For young Bobby Sands and his comrades are free.
[Verse]
Locked up in their cells with no natural light,
Tortured and beaten by day and by night,
Wrapped up in a blanket in a cold H-Block cell,
These young Irish patriots were living in hell.
So a protest was started for their five demands,
A hunger for justice led by Bobby Sands,
With his nine brave companions they gave up their lives,
The lark and the free bird are with them tonight.
[Chorus]
Let us guide you spirit home,
We'll fly beside you till your journey's done,
We'll sing sweet melodies to thee,
For young Bobby Sands and his comrades are free.
[Verse]
There's Hughes and O'Hara, Devine and there's Sands,
Doherty and Lynch, McElwee made his stand,
McDonnell and Hurson then Raymond McCreesh,
Until Ireland is free they will not rest in peace.
No greater love than to lay down your life,
For your fellow comrades, a brave sacrifice,
As years they rolled onwards we'll think of these men,
We salute you brave comrades till we meet again.
[Chorus]
Let us guide you spirit home,
We'll fly beside you till your journey's done,
We'll sing sweet melodies to thee,
For young Bobby Sands and his comrades are free.
[Verse]
Many years have past by and their memories live on,
Through young generations who'll sing you these songs,
Of our true gallant heroes of the year '81,
Who took on the might of the Brits and they won.
So come all you people both gallant and true,
Remember these brave men, who died then for you,
They gave up their lives for you and for me,
One Ireland, on island, united and free.
[Chorus]
Let us guide you spirit home,
We'll fly beside you till your journey's done,
We'll sing sweet melodies to thee,
For young Bobby Sands and his comrades are free.
[Chorus]
Let us guide you spirit home,
We'll fly beside you till your journey's done,
We'll sing sweet melodies to thee,
For young Bobby Sands and his comrades are free,
For young Bobby Sands and his comrades are free.