[Verse]
Was one morning in July, I was walking through Tipperary,
When I heard the battle cry from the mountains overhead,
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?
Will you 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 the soldier boy, "Won't you take me to your captain,
Twill be my pride and joy for to march with you today,
My young brother fell in Cork and my son at Enniscorthy!"
And to the noble captain I did say.

[Chorus]
"I will stand in the band like a true Irish man,
I'll go and fight thе forces of the Crown,
I will march with O'Neill to an Irish battlеfield,
For tonight we're gonna free old Wexford town!"

[Chorus]
"Will you stand in the band like a true Irish man?
Will you 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 from the field in the shadow of the evening,
With our banners flying low to the memory of the dead,
We returned unto our homes but without our soldier laddie,
And I never will forget those words he said.

[Chorus]
"Will you stand in the band like a true Irish man?
Will you 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?
Will you 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!".