[Verse]
From rebel veins my life I drew,
In rebel arms I lay,
From rebel lips the lessons drew,
That led me day by day,
And rocked to rest on rebel breast,
Nursed on rebel knee,
There woke and grew for weal or rue,
A rebel heart in me.

[Chorus]
Oh, rebel heart, oh, rebel heart,
From taint of thraldom free,
God strengthen still for good or ill,
This rebel heart in me.

[Verse]
My home was where the Moher heights
Rise rugged o'er the sea,
And nature's scenes and nature's sights,
Forbade me live asleep,
The bugles on that day went long,
Loud thundered liberty,
And at that cry drew fast and high,
The rebel heart in me.

[Chorus]
Oh, rebel heart, oh, rebel heart,
From taint of thraldom free,
God strengthen still for good or ill,
This rebel heart in me.

[Verse]
I've read my country's chequered page,
I've sang her deathless songs,
And wept her woes from age to age,
And burned to right her wrongs,
And when I saw to alien law,
She never bent the knee,
Oh, prouder yet for Ireland beat,
The rebel heart in me.

[Chorus]
Oh, rebel heart, oh, rebel heart,
From taint of thraldom free,
God strengthen still for good or ill,
This rebel heart in me.