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i remember you back in the gpo with connolly and clarke
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laughin' with mcdermott through the bullets and the sparks
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always with the smart remark, your eyes blazin' and blue
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but when we needed confidence we always turned to you
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and when they shot our leaders up against kilmainham wall
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you were there beside us in that awful easter dawn
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hey, big fellah..........where the hell are you now
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when we need you the most
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hey, big fellah..........c'mon
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tabhair dom do lámh
give me your hand
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back on the streets of dublin when we fought the black and tans
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you were there beside us, a towerin' mighty man
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and god help the informer or the hated english spy
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by jaysus, mick, you'd crucify them without the blinkin' of an eye
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still you had a heart as soft as the early mornin' dew
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every widow, whore and orphan could always turn to you
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hey, big fellah..........where the hell are you now
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when we need you the most
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hey, big fellah..........c'mon
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tabhair dom do lámh
give me your hand
solo
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we beat them in the cities and we whipped them in the streets
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and the world hailed michael collins, our commander and our chief
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and they sent you off to london to negotiate a deal
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and to gain us a republic, united, boys, and real
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but the women and the drink, mick, they must have got to you
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'cause you came back with a country divided up in two
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hey, big fellah..........where the hell are you now
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when we need you the most
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hey, big fellah..........c'mon
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tabhair dom do lámh
give me your hand
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we had to turn against you, mick, there was nothin' we could do
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'cause we couldn't betray the republic like arthur griffith and you
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we fought against each other, two brothers steeped in blood
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but i never doubted that your heart was broken in the flood
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and though we had to shoot you down in golden béal na blath
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i always knew that ireland lost her greatest son of all
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hey, big fellah..........where the hell are you now
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when we need you the most
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hey, big fellah..........c'mon
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tabhair dom do lámh
give me your hand
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