《The Grave Of Wolfe Tone》歌词

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In Bodenstown churchyard there is a green grave [00:00:00]

And wildly around it the winter winds rave;[00:00:07]

Small shelter I ween are the ruined walls there[00:00:13]

When the storm sweeps down on the plains of Kildare [00:00:20]

Once I lay on that sod it lies over Wolfe Tone[00:00:28]

And thought how he perished in prison alone [00:00:34]

His friends unavenged and his country unfreed[00:00:40]

"Oh bitter " I said "is the patriots meed [00:00:46]

"For in him the heart of a woman combined[00:00:53]

With heroic spirit and a governing mind[00:01:00]

A martyr for Ireland his grave has no stone[00:01:06]

His name sheldom named and his virtues unknown "[00:01:13]

I was woke from my dream by the voices and tread[00:01:22]

Of a band who came into the home of the dead;[00:01:29]

They carried no corpse and they carried no stone [00:01:35]

And they stopped when they came to the grave of Wolfe[00:01:42]

Tone [00:01:48]

There were students and peasants the wise and the[00:01:50]

Brave [00:01:55]

And an old man who knew him from cradle to grave [00:01:57]

And children who thought me hard-hearted for they[00:02:03]

On that sanctified sod were forbidden to play [00:02:10]

But the old man who saw I was mourning there said:[00:02:18]

"We come sir to weep where young Wolfe Tone is laid [00:02:24]

And we're going to raise him a monument too[00:02:31]

A plain one yet fit for the loyal and true "[00:02:37]

My heart overflowed and I clasped his old hand [00:02:45]

And I blessed him and blessed every one of his band:[00:02:51]

"Sweet sweet tis to find that such faith can remain[00:02:57]

In the cause and the man so long vanquished and slain "[00:03:04]

In Bodenstown churchyard there is a green grave [00:03:12]

And freely around it let winter winds rave[00:03:19]

Far better they suit him the ruin and gloom[00:03:26]

Till Ireland a nation can build him a tomb[00:03:32]

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