It was (C)back in history's page, the (F)story's
(C)told of a (F)Napper (C)Tandy (Am7)brave and (G)bold
With his (F)scarlet and (C)green, he (Am7)then
was (Am)seen with his (G)big long gun and his fighting men
And they (C)beat at the drum, they (F)fired their
(C)gun and they (F)shook the (C)English es(Am7)tablish(G)ment
And the (F)Lords and the (C)Peers, they (Am7)then
put their (Am)fears and (G)Grattan got his Parlia(C)ment
CHORUS:
So
(F)here's to those great (C)Protestant Men
Who
gave their lives to free our (G)land
All
the (C)people sang their praises (F)then
For those brave (C)United
(Am7)Irish(G)men
In Belfast town there lived a man and his name was Samuel Neilson
A minister's son, Presbyterian, and the
paper called the Northern Star
There was Henry Joy, the Green Volunteers and Thomas Russell and McCabe and McTeir
And
to them was known a man Wolfe Tone and they formed the first United Men
Chorus
So your law’s with dragon’s
teeth and soon you'll see that you've sowed the seeds of bigotry
Be Englands fool divide they'll rule so they set to break
the United Men
And they killed them in the fields and some in jail and some upon the Gallows high
When Willie Orr died
his very last cry was "Unite and fight brave Irishmen"
Chorus
Cast dissensions to the wind let all men lend
to the common name of an Irishman
For across historys page to rant and rage men crossed the pails of bigotry
There
was the men of '98 no sadder fate, Lord Edward, Tone and the brothers Sheres
It was Emmet's plea in 18 and 3 when he tried
to set our country free
