Boys of the Old Brigade Lyrics and Video. Paddy McGuigan

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Great song and just the day for singing it loud and proud.

Here's to the Irish rebels of 1916. The greatest Ireland ever produced.
MacDonagh and MacBride
And Connolly and Pearse
Now and in time to be,
Wherever green is worn,
Are changed, changed utterly:
A terrible beauty is born.
No better Irisman to sing the great patriotic song than Paddy McGuigan, the Irishman who wrote The Boys of the Old Brigade. Also wrote The men behind the wire and Irish Soldier Laddie.

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Oh, father why are you so sad
On this bright Easter morn
When Irish men are proud and glad
Of the land where they were born

Son, I see in memory's view
A far off distant day
When being just a lad like you
I joined the IRA.

Where are the lads that stood with me
When history was made
Oh, Gra' mo chroi, I long to see
The boys of the old brigade.

From hills and farms a call to arms
Was heard by one and all.
And from the glen came brave young men
To answer Ireland’s call.

T'was long ago we faced the foe,
The old brigade and me,
And by my side they fought and died
That Ireland might be free.

Where are the lads that stood with me
When history was made
Oh, Gra' mo chroi, I long to see
The boys of the old brigade.

And now, my boy, I’ve told you why
On Easter morn’ I sigh,
For I recall my comrades all
From dark old days gone by.

I think of men who fought in glen
With rifle and grenade.
May heaven keep the men who sleep
From the ranks of the old brigade.

Where are the lads that stood with me
When history was made
Oh, Gra' mo chroi, I long to see
The boys of the old brigade.
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