The Lark - Spirit Of Freedom

[Chorus]
The lark will sing once again,
We sing about those brave young Irish men,
For their five demands, the freedom of their land,
The lark will sing once again.

[Verse]
The year of '81 and the hunger strike begun,
For ten brave men, their lives were not in vain,
Died so you and me, someday we will be free,
A country united once again.

[Chorus]
The lark will sing once again,
We sing about these brave young Irish men,
For their five demands, the freedom of their land,
The lark will sing once again.

[Verse]
The time has surely come, but it does not seem that long,
Those dark days when four lads died in May,
Bobby Sands and Francie Hughes, so sad to have to lose,
O'Hara and McCreesh, they died that day.

[Chorus]
The lark will sing once again,
We sing about these brave young Irish men,
For their five demands, the freedom of their land,
The lark will sing once again.

[Verse]
Joe McDonnell, in July, Martin Hurson died closely by,
Young men in their prime, before their time,
Took on the British might and sacrificed their lives,
Their actions were political, not a crime.

[Chorus]
The lark will sing once again,
We sing about these brave young Irish men,
For their five demands, the freedom of their land,
The lark will sing once again.

[Verse]
Kevin Lynch, Kieran Doherty and Thomas McElwee,
Soldiers carried nobly to their graves,
Michael Devine, in Derry you spent your time,
Your name we speak in honour of the brave.

[Chorus]
The lark will sing once again,
We sing about these brave young Irish men,
For their five demands, the freedom of their land,
The lark will sing once again.

[Verse]
Maggie Thatcher go to hell, for in those H-Block cells,
Ten brave men, they proudly gave their lives,
For their five demands, they nobly took a stand,
And side by side, on hunger strike, they died.

[Chorus]
The lark will sing once again,
We sing about these brave young Irish men,
For their five demands, the freedom of their land,
The lark will sing once again.

[Verse]
The struggle still goes on and the day will surely dawn,
Our children will see freedom in our land,
Where every single day, their memories we will pray,
Those gallant men, who died with Bobby Sands.

[Chorus]
The lark will sing once again,
We sing about these brave young Irish men,
For their five demands, the freedom of their land,
The lark will sing once again.

[Chorus]
The lark will sing once again,
We sing about these brave young Irish men,
For their five demands, the freedom of their land,
The lark will sing once again,
The lark will sing once again,
The lark will sing once again,
The lark will sing.