[Verse]
I have been a Provo for fifteen years or more,
With Armalites and mortar bombs, thought I knew the score,
oh, but now we have a weapon, we've never used before,
The Brits are looking worried and the choppers are flying lower.

[Chorus]
Tiocfaidh ár lá, sing up the RA,
Ooh, ah, up the RA!
SAM missiles in the sky.

[Verse]
I started out with petrol bombs and throwing bricks and stones,
There were a hundred more lads like me, I never was alone,
Ah, but soon I learned that bricks and stones won't drive the Brits away,
It wasn't very long before, (Who did I join?), I joined the IRA.

[Chorus]
Tiocfaidh ár lá, sing up the RA,
Oh, ah, up the RA!
SAM missiles in the sky.

[Hook]
Is it a bird, (No!)
Is it a plane, (No!)
It's super SAM.

[Chorus]
Tiocfaidh ár lá, sing up the RA,
Ooh, ah, up the RA!
SAM missiles in the sky.

[Verse]
Well then there came internment, in the year of '71, (Ooh, ah, up the RA!)
The Brits thought we were beaten, that we were on the run, (Ooh, ah, up the RA!)
On that early August morning, they kicked in our back door,
But for every man they took away, sure, they missed twenty more.

[Chorus]
Tiocfaidh ár lá, sing up the RA,
Ooh, ah, up the RA!
SAM missiles in the sky.

[Verse]
I spent eight years in the cages, had time to think and plan, (Ooh, ah, up the RA!)
For though they locked away a boy, I walked out a man, (Ooh, ah, up the RA!)
And there's only one thing I have learned while in a cell I lay,
The Brits will never leave us, (Not until when?), not until they're shown the way.

[Chorus]
Tiocfaidh ár lá, sing up the RA,
Ooh, ah, up the RA!
SAM missiles in the sky.

[Verse]
All through the days of hunger strike I watched my comrades die,
And in the streets of Belfast, you could hear the women cry,
Well, I can't forget the massacre that Friday at Loughgall,
I salute my fallen comrades as I watch the choppers fall.

[Chorus]
Tiocfaidh ár lá, sing up the RA,
Ooh, ah, up the RA!
SAM missiles in the sky.

[Chorus]
Tiocfaidh ár lá, sing up the RA,
Ooh, ah, up the RA!
SAM missiles in the sky.

[Outro]
Ooh, ah, up the RA!
Singing ooh, ah, up the RA!
SAM missiles in the sky. (Singing ooh, ah, up the RA!)
SAM missiles in the sky. (Singing ooh, ah, up the RA!)
Singing ooh, ah, up the RA!.