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The Wolfe Tones Song Lyrics And Guitar Chords.
These are the songs that have been written by The Wolfe Tones or are associated with the group. There are
other songs on other sections of the site that have also been recorded by The Wolfe Tones but have been recorded by other
bands as well. For example The Merry Ploughboy has been covered by The Dubliners, Johnny McEvoy and others, so you will find
plenty more lyrics and tablature that have been recorded by The Wolfe Tones in the A-Z section. Most of the lyrics
here are by Brian Warfield who is the main songwriter of the group and also plays 5 string banjo and sings, Tommy Byrne plays
acoustic guitar and sings the big powerful ballads, while Noel Nagle also sings and plays tin and low whistles. more information
on the Wolfe Tones at the following links on the right.

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Padraic Pearse
O'Donavan
Traditional
B.Warfield
B.Warfield
Brian Warfield
Brian Warfield
Harry Clifton
Brian Warfield
Brian Warfield
Liam Reilly
Sean Costello
Peadar Kearney
Thomas Davis
Agge Cutler
Brian Warfield
B.Warfield
B.Warfield
Traditional
Unknown writer
Traditional/Arr. Wolfe Tones
Trad.
The Wolfe Tones
B.Warfield

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The latest news is that I am currently writing songs and working on a new CD which we hope to have in time
for Christmas! We will be giving all our members the opportunity to get it before general release. It will be a special
version of it just for you, more about that in the next newsletter. The new C.D. is now on sale, the title is Child Of Destiny,
the tracks included are - Swing A Banker, The Cliffs Of Moher, Hibernia, Child Of Destiny, Uncle Nobby Steamboat, Siobhan,
Anne Devlin, Moonbeam, The Celtic People, My Green Valleys, John O'Brien, Champion Of Champions, The Merman, The First Of
May, Big Brother, Who Fears To Speak Of 89, and Admiral William Brown.
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We are also working on a documentary, see the promo of it below Copies of this will only be available
through the website so make sure all your friends join up and get this exclusive DVD.
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No Airplay For The Wolfe Tones
I am appalled at the lack of Irish content on Irish radio. I have done many interviews over the recent
times and could not believe that, first of all, they had no Wolfe Tones music in their database or at best maybe 1 or 2. The
DJ’s have none or little choice in what music is played or in the content of his/her show, even on local radio. For
instance I gave an interview lately and they played Michael Jackson as a musical introduction and I was played out by the
Spice Girls! This is Irish Radio, its crazy, like Jackson's 'Man in the Mirror', it reflects him, radio should reflect the
Irish music scene and Irish content. It should be made compulsory as part of their licence agreement to have at least 50%
Irish content in each show. Many other countries have a similar policy, Canada for example, living beside a powerful nation
with a very influential musical industry have a similar one to this, 60% I think. Why shouldn’t we? Thousands of jobs
would be created in the Irish musical industry in recording studios, for song writers, Musicians, road crews and technicians.
We are a great musical nation but there is a policy on our airwaves that favours imported music over that which
is locally produced. Now this puts Irish talent at a disadvantage, I object to the fact that they get more exposure than Irish
local acts who are equally as good and in most cases put on a better show or equally as good. Don’t get me wrong, I
welcome international acts to Ireland, we travel the world and get fair treatment in the many lands we have toured but so
too do the indigenous acts. We shared the stage with many great performers in many places across the world including Siamsa
and anyone who remembers them will vouch for the fact that the Wolfies could hold their own with the best of them. Now
let’s work together to bring change to the airwaves, bombard them with requests for the Tones and let’s see what
happens, maybe, just maybe, they might change their policy, I hope it changes for our new CD ------Brian Warfield
2011
The above by Brian reminded me of something Tommy Makem said in his last interview, '“I’m very worried about
how our culture is faring all over the country,’ he said. “More and more our traditions are being downgraded and
shoved under the table. In the past thirty years we have done to ourselves what the English government couldn’t do in
800 years. We’ve hammered hell out of our culture.”
Tommy was right, there are over 1,300 folk songs on this site, there's more chance of winning the lottery that
any two of these songs getting played on our radio stations in a row.
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If you have a story about The Wolfe Tones and want to share it, send it to me to be included with one of the songs. It
can be about anything you like, maybe you met The Wolfe Tones or sang a song with the lads, it could be about how the group
inspired you to sing and play rebel songs on guitar or banjo.
Here's a list of the R.T.E radio 1 programmes which play the odd Wolfe Tones songs. Maxi Ronan Collins John Creedon Late
Date Failte Isteach Ceili House The Rolling Wave
If you know of a radio station that plays Wolfe Tones songs let me know the details to be published here, thanks.
Introduction To Album - Child Of Destiny
The title track was written as a plea to our future generations, our children and our grandchildren, who are lost
in a sea of sorrow, despair and uncertainty. We have mortaaged their future and denied them their past. We have wasted
the precious resources in an excess of greed and selfishness. We allow them to drown in misery and wastefulness, in
our rush to globalise we, the selfish generation have neglected many things of great value that should be handed down to
them but we cast to the oceans of neglect and deliberately erased it from their education.
We present this collection of songs and stories that capture the moment, songs of our time, stories of our past
and warnings for the future. This generation full of their own imporance have ungreatfully forgotten and redculed our
hero#s who gave everything they had for their people and their country. We should honour them with pride, they gave their
welth their reputation and their lives for the land they loved. What better example can we pass on to the young generation
than the hero's of our historic past.
We have undervalued our musical heritage including our great ballad tradition, which for centuries was the only
means in which the ordinary people gained knowledge of their history or current events. The language and national spirit and
all that was good about Ireland has being rubbished andthrown into the already poluted sea of waste and hardship. This
is a generation asking to be saved from greed and ignorance, asking for a chance to know their history, the true story
of their land and a fair deal for the future. A Child Of Innis Fail, The Land Of Destiny
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Wolfe Tones Tour Of America
Derek Warfield
Liam Reilly
Traditional
Unknown writer
Paddy McGuigan/The Barleycorn
Traditional/Ballad
Traditional
Brian Warfield
Brian Warfield
Brian Warfield
Dominic Behan
Brian Warfield
Song words only
Peadar Kearney
Liam Reilly
Brian Warfield
Traditional
T.D. O'Sullivan
O'Cathain/Warfield
Traditional / rebel
Brian Warfield
Brian Warfield
Sean McCarthy
Brian Warfield
Paddy McGuigan / The Barleycorn
B.Warfield
Brian Warfield
Traditional
Brian Warfield
Brian Warfield
The Impartial Police Force Included
Brian Warfield
Brian Warfield
unknown writer
Paddy McGuigan
Brian Warfield
Traditional / Wolfe Tones
Derek Warfield
B.Warfield
Eamonn Mac Thomáis - A Sense Of Freedom
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I sat down in my best armchair and asked one of my youngfellas to put on a few records. I think I heard him coursing under
his breath. ''Now Look It'' I said, when I was a chisseller I had to keep winding the handle of the Old Master's Voice
type gramaphone all night long for me ma. What's more I said, I had to change the needle after each song. Now it's all
automatic, a flick of the switch and the E.S.B. does the winding and the needle has more lives than a cat.
Well fair play to the yonngfella, he put the record on the stereo and I sat back to listen to the Brace Wolfe
Tones. The whole Bakers Dozen of songs and music came flooding back to me one after the other. I think this record is
one of the best, if no their very best.
The music is sweet and lively to make your feet tap and the songs are sung with great gutso and love. Among
the thirteen songs there is a wide vairety to suit every taste and ''The Flower Of Scotland'' you can nearly smell.
Here we have ''Planxty McGuire'' The Galtee Mountain Boy Mick Collins and Let The People Sing and a host of other songs.
The ones my young lad liked best were Irish Eyes The Piper, The Mairmaid with his fishy tail.
He said there was a right bit of a beat to the songs Sargeant William Bailey and Admiral William Brown. I must
admit the songs Farewell To Dublin, Joe McDonnell and The Good Ship Catalpa are my favourites, I'm a sucker for Dublin
Cobblestones, the sound of the magical names like James Joyce, Molly Bloom, Bang Bang, Johnny Fourty Coates and Zozimus
nearly lifted me out of my armchair.
I got the sudden urge to walk down Eccles Street in the footsteps of Molly Bloom. Then I wanted to stand at Bridgefoot Street
Corner where I often stood and talked to Johnny Forty Coates. Maybe I'll go down and kiss the Sea Horses on Essex Bridge
where Zozimus resited and drop in for a visit to Clonturk House Drumcondra where Bang Bang died, but sure I had to stay
to listen to the rest of the songs.
The Good Ship Catalpa reminds me of Bold Fenian Men and Joe Clarke, Joe the hero of The Battle Of Mount Street
Bridge. in 1916 was the first man to make the name Catalpa a household name in the year 1960. Joe published at his own
expence a booklet ''The Story Of The Catalpa''. A few years later Joe presented The Catalpa Flag to The National Museum.
Joe Clarke was our link with The Fenians. He was a friend of Rossa, Devoy and Stephens who in turn were a link
to The Young Irelander's of 1848, that's what you call ''Tradition''. Whenever I think about Joe McDonnell, Bobby Sands,
Patsy O'Hara or the other seven men who died for Ireland on hunger strike in the H Blocks I always bring a prayer now
a song and the words of Mickey Divine who also made the supreame sarcriface .''There is nothing that any human being
values more that life, Every man clings to it with every ounce of strenght of his being To willingly surrender
it is acknowledged as the greatest sarcriface and man can make.
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