[Verse]
Twas a morning in July, I was walking through Tipperary,
When I heard a battle cry from the mountains overhead,
As I looked up in 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?
And go and fight the forces of the Crown?
Will you march with O'Neill through an Irish battlefield?
For tonight we go and free old Wexford town!"

[Verse]
Said I to that soldier boy, "Would you take me to your captain?
It would be my pride and joy for to march with you today,
My young brother fell in Cork and my son at Enniscorthy!"
Unto the noble captain I did say.

[Chorus]
"Will you stand in the band like a true Irish man?
And go and fight the forces of the Crown?
Will you march with O'Neill through an Irish battlefield?
For tonight we go and free old Wexford town!"

[Verse]
As we marched back from the field in the shadow of the evening,
And our banners flying low to the memory of our dead,
We returned unto our homes but without my soldier laddie,
But I never will forget these words he said!

[Chorus]
"Will you stand in the band like a true Irish man?
And go and fight the forces of the Crown?
Will you march with O'Neill through an Irish battlefield?
For tonight we go and free old Wexford town!"
"For tonight we go and free old Wexford town!".