[Chorus]
Read the Roll of Honour for Ireland's bravest men,
We must be united in memory of the ten,
England you're a monster, ah, don't think that you have won,
We will never be defeated, while Ireland has such sons.
[Verse]
In those dreary H-Block cages, ten brave young Irishmen lay,
Hungering for justice, while their young lives ebbed away,
For their rights as Irish soldiers, and to free their native land,
They stood beside their leader, the gallant Bobby Sands.
[Chorus]
So read the Roll of Honour for Ireland's bravest men,
We must be united in memory of the ten,
England you're a monster and don't think that you have won,
We will never be defeated, while Ireland has such sons.
[Verse]
Now they mourn Hughes in Bellaghy, Ray McCreesh in Armagh's hills,
In those narrow streets of Free Derry they miss O'Hara still,
They so proudly gave their young lives just to break Britannia's hold,
Their names will be remembered when history unfolds.
[Chorus]
So read the Roll of Honour for Ireland's bravest men,
We must be united in memory of the ten,
England you're a monster and don't think that you have won,
We will never be defeated, while Ireland has such sons.
[Verse]
Through the war torn streets of Ulster, oh, the black flag did sadly wave,
To salute ten Irish martyrs, who were the bravest of the brave,
Joe McDonnell, Martin Hurson, Kevin Lynch, Kieran Doherty,
They gave their lives for freedom with Thomas McElwee.
Michael Devine from Free Derry, you were the last to die,
With your nine brave companions, with our martyrs dead you lie,
But your souls cry out, "Remember, that our deaths were not in vain,
Fight on and make our homeland a nation once again."
[Bridge]
A nation once again, a nation once again,
And Ireland, once a province, be a nation once again.
[Chorus]
Read the Roll of Honour for Ireland's bravest men,
We must be united in memory of the ten,
England you're a monster and don't think that you have won,
We will never be defeated, while Ireland has such sons,
No we'll never be defeated, while Ireland has such sons.