[Verse]
Was a morning in July, I was walking through Tipperary,
When I heard the battle cry from the mountains overhead,
As I looked up to the sky, saw an Irish soldier laddie,
He looked at me right fearlessly and said.

[Chorus]
"Will you stand in the band like a true Irish man?
Go and fight the forces of the Crown?
Will you march with O'Neill to an Irish battlefield?
For tonight we're gonna free old Wexford town!"

[Verse]
Said I to that soldier boy, "Won't you take me to your captain?
Be my pride and joy for to march with you today,
Me young brother fell in Cork and my son in Enniscorthy!"
To the noble captain I did say.

[Chorus]
"Will you stand in the band like a true Irish man?
Go and fight the forces of the Crown?
Will you march with O'Neill to an Irish battlefield?
For tonight we're gonna free old Wexford town!"

[Chorus]
"Will you stand in the band like a true Irish man?
Go and fight the forces of the Crown?
Will you march with O'Neill to an Irish battlefield?
For tonight we're gonna free old Wexford town!"

[Verse]
As we marched back to the field in the shadow of the evening,
Our banners flying low to the memory of our dead,
We returned unto our homes but without the soldier laddie,
But I never will forget the words he said.

[Chorus]
"Oh, will you stand in the band like a true Irish man?
Go and fight the forces of the Crown?
Will you march with O'Neill to an Irish battlefield?
For tonight we're gonna free old Wexford town!"

[Chorus]
"Will you stand in the band like a true Irish man?
Go and fight the forces of the Crown?
Will you march with O'Neill to an Irish battlefield?
For tonight we're gonna free old Wexford town!"
"For tonight we're gonna free old Wexford town!"