[Verse]
On a cold December day as lorry ploughed its way,
Mid bullets spur and play on Ashtown Road,
In that car a living tool of England's hated rule,
There was begun a duel on Ashtown Road.

[Chorus]
But another day shall dawn like that cold December morn,
When a martyr's name was born on Ashtown Road.

[Verse]
Now young Savage, unafraid, with gun and hand grenade,
Attacked them undismayed on Ashtown Road,
But a bullet laid him low from a rifle of a foe,
That's another debt we owe for Ashtown Road.

[Chorus]
But another day shall dawn like that cold December morn,
When a martyr's name was born on Ashtown Road.

[Verse]
But another day shall dawn like that cold December morn,
When a martyr's name was born on Ashtown Road.
For we laid him in a grave where the willows sadly wave,
Oh, son of Erin brave, farewell to thee.

[Chorus]
But another day shall dawn like that cold December morn,
When a martyr's name was born on Ashtown Road.