[Verse]
Well, I have been a Provo now, for fifteen years or more,
And Armalites and mortar bombs, I thought I knew the score,
But now we have a weapon, we've never used before,
All the Brits are getting worried and they're going to worry more.

[Chorus]
Tiocfaidh ár lá, we'll sing up the RA,
Ooh, ah, up the RA! Say ooh, ah, up the RA!
Oh, SAM missiles in the sky.

[Verse]
I started out with petrol bombs, throwing bricks and stones,
There were a hundred lads more like me, I never was alone,
Soon I learned that bricks and stones won't drive the Brits away,
Well it wasn't very long before, I joined the IRA.

[Chorus]
Tiocfaidh ár lá, we'll sing up the RA,
Ooh, ah, up the RA! Say ooh, ah, up the RA!
Oh, SAM missiles in the sky.

[Verse]
And then there came internment, in the year of '71,
The Brits thought we were beaten, that we were on the run,
That early August morning, they kicked in our back door,
But for every man they took away, sure, they missed a hundred more.

[Chorus]
Oh, tiocfaidh ár lá, we'll sing up the RA,
Ooh, ah, up the RA! Say ooh, ah, up the RA!
Oh, SAM missiles in the sky.

[Verse]
I spent eight years in the cages, I had time to think and plan,
Although they locked away a boy, I walked out a man,
There's only one thing that I have learned while in the cells I lay,
The Brits will never leave us, until they're blown away.

[Chorus]
Oh, tiocfaidh ár lá, we'll sing up the RA,
Ooh, ah, up the RA! Say ooh, ah, up the RA!
Oh, SAM missiles in the sky.

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

[Chorus]
Oh, tiocfaidh ár lá, we'll sing up the RA,
Ooh, ah, up the RA! Say ooh, ah, up the RA!
Oh, SAM missiles in the sky.

[Chorus]
Oh, tiocfaidh ár lá, we'll sing up the RA,
Ooh, ah, up the RA! Say ooh, ah, up the RA!
Oh, SAM missiles in the sky.