Hunger Strike Trilogy Medley - The Irish Brigade


(Roll Of Honour)
[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, (Who?), the gallant Bobby Sands.

Now we mourn Hughes in Bellaghy, Ray McCreesh in Armagh's hills,
In those narrow streets of Derry they miss O'Hara still,
They so proudly gave their young lives just to break Britannia's hold,
Their names will be remembered as history unfolds.

[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]
Through the war torn streets of Ulster, well, the black flags did sadly wave,
To salute ten Irish martyrs, 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 Derry, you were the last to die,
With your nine brave companions, with our martyred dead you lie,
Your souls cry out, "Remember, our deaths were not in vain,
Fight on and make our homeland 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, ah, don't think that you have won,
We will never be defeated, while Ireland has such sons.

(Hughes Lives On Forever)
[Verse]
In Derry's hills they mourn a son,
A brave young Irish soldier's gone,
That flame he carries it still burns on,
For Hughes lives on forever.

[Chorus]
And freedom's dawn has come at last,
Judgement for injustice past,
Your tyranny it's dying fast,
While Hughes lives on forever.

[Verse]
The guardian of the hills and dales,
Tyrone and Derry loved him well,
Though tortured in that H-Block cell,
Hughes lives on forever.

[Chorus]
And freedom's dawn has come at last,
Judgement for injustice past,
Your tyranny it's dying fast,
While Hughes lives on forever.

[Verse]
The scourge of Ireland's enemies,
The SAS and the RUC,
Unconquered still our spirits free,
Cause Hughes lives on forever.

[Chorus]
And freedom's dawn has come at last,
Judgement for injustice past,
Your tyranny it's dying fast,
While Hughes lives on forever.

[Verse]
Brave Francis Hughes you're with us yet,
Your murderers we will not forget,
They feared you then, they fear you yet,
Cause Hughes lives on forever.

[Chorus]
And freedom's dawn has come at last,
Judgement for injustice past,
Your tyranny it's dying fast,
While Hughes lives on forever.

[Chorus]
Freedom's dawn has come at last,
Judgement for injustice past,
Your tyranny it's dying fast,
While Hughes lives on forever,
Yes, Hughes lives on forever.

(Farewell to Bellaghy)
[Chorus]
So, farewell to Bellaghy, likewise Tamlaghtduff,
And the green hills of Derry, ah, that I dearly loved,
My thought return to you, from my dark H-Block cell,
So, friends and brave comrades I'll bid you farewell.

[Verse]
For eight hundred of years now, we've kept up the fight,
And the history books told me of Ireland's plight,
So with Francis and Dominic, I followed the cause,
To conquer the tyrant and defy England's laws.

Through the hills of south Derry, we marched and we drilled,
To our exploits in action all Irish youth thrilled,
Most feared men in Ulster, volunteers on the run,
We gave England our answer from the barrels of our guns.

[Chorus]
So, farewell to Bellaghy, likewise Tamlaghtduff,
And the green hills of Derry, ah, that I dearly loved,
My thought return to you, from my dark H-Block cell,
So, friends and brave comrades I'll bid you farewell.

[Verse]
Oh, gallant south Derry, you are forever blessed,
In our struggle for freedom you have given your best,
There's Hughes and there's Bateson, brave Sheridan and Leigh,
And inscribed with their names now, brave Tom McElwee.

[Chorus]
So, farewell to Bellaghy, likewise Tamlaghtduff,
And the green hills of Derry, ah, that I dearly loved,
My thought return to you, from my dark H-Block cell,
So, friends and brave comrades I'll bid you farewell,
So, friends and brave comrades I'll bid you farewell.