[Verse]
At the Siege of Limerick, Patrick Sarsfield won the day,
But the Irish, they were cheated when his army went away,
Queen Anne and her successors forced on us those Penal Laws,
Denying the rights and liberty of religion, land and property!

[Hook]
Murder, plunder, Faugh a Ballagh, clear the way,
Cheating, stealing, diddly-idel-day,
Ducking, diving, Faugh a Ballagh, clear the way,
Diddly-idel-doh, diddly-idel-day.

[Verse]
Then came the three mad Georges and they had us nearly fooled,
They couldn't speak the lingo of the countries that they ruled,
Puppets of ascendancy, they kept the Irish down,
And the rebels and the Whiteboys had their army on the run!

[Chorus]
And you'll never beat the Irish, no matter what you'll do,
Oh, you could put us down and keep us out but we'll come back again,
You'll know we are the fighting Irish and we'll fight until the end,
You'll know, you should have known, you'll never beat the Irish.

[Verse]
Then famine Queen, Victoria came to rule us by and by,
She was on the throne so bloody long, we thought she'd never die!
She presided over hunger, famine, poverty and disease
She drove the people from their home to their death or to the land beyond the sea!

[Hook]
Murder, plunder, Faugh a Ballagh, clear the way,
Cheating, stealing, diddly-idel-day,
Ducking, diving, Faugh a Ballagh, clear the way,
Diddly-idel-doh, diddly-idel-day.

[Verse]
All across the nineteenth century, fought oppression with great zeal,
O'Connell spoke his blarney for emancipation and repeal,
Young Ireland and the Fenians tried the dynamite and the gun,
Parnell, the men of '16 died, then Michael Collins had em on the run!

[Chorus]
And you'll never beat the Irish, no matter what you'll do,
Oh, you could put us down and keep us out but we'll come back again,
You'll know we are the fighting Irish and we'll fight until the end,
You'll know, you should have known, you'll never beat the Irish.

[Hook]
Murder, plunder Faugh a Ballagh, clear the way,
Cheating, stealing, diddly-idel-day,
Ducking, diving, Faugh a Ballagh, clear the way,
Diddly-idel-doh, diddly-idel-day.

[Hook]
Murder, plunder Faugh a Ballagh, clear the way,
Cheating, stealing, diddly-idel-day,
Ducking, diving, Faugh a Ballagh, clear the way,
Diddly-idel-doh, diddly-idel-day.