Re: Irish Rebel Songs (Lyrics)
Auf Wiedersehen Crossmaglen
So Auf Wiedersehen to Crossmaglen farewell to Carrickmore;
I've seen enough of Ireland boys and I won't be back for more!
No I won't be back for more!
The recruiting sergeant told me boys, how army life is fine
But he did not mention the mortar bombs or those bloody Claymore Mines!
So Auf Wiedersehen to Crossmaglen farewell to Carrickmore;
I've seen enough of Ireland boys and I won't be back for more!
No I won't be back for more!
He told me of the German girls; the discos evert night
But the only craic in South Armagh comes from an armalite!
So Auf Wiedersehen to Crossmaglen farewell to Carrickmore;
I've seen enough of Ireland boys and I won't be back for more!
No I won't be back for more!
Well I've spent some time on the Toombe Bridge line where I thought I knew no fear,
Then a van-bomb parked outside my Lisburn base and brought the barracks in around my ears!
So Auf Wiedersehen to Crossmaglen farewell to Carrickmore;
I've seen enough of Ireland boys and I won't be back for more!
No I won't be back for more!
So farewell at last to West Belfast: to the Markets and the Falls
I quickly got the message there it was written on the walls
Brits Out!
So Auf Wiedersehen to Crossmaglen farewell to Carrickmore;
I've seen enough of Ireland boys and I won't be back for more!
No I won't be back for more!
So all you young lads who in England be signing on the brew
Keep well away from the IRA and they won't bother you...
So Auf Wiedersehen to Crossmaglen farewell to Carrickmore;
I've seen enough of Ireland boys and I won't be back for more!
No I won't be back for more!
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The traditions of the Irish people are the oldest of any race in Europe north and west of the Alps, and they themselves are the longest settled on their own soil
- Edmund Curtis (A History of Ireland: From Earliest Times to 1922)
The Irish are one of the most ancient nations that I know of at this end of the world, and are from as mighty a race as the world ever brought forth.
For it is certain that Ireland hath had the use of letters very anciently and long before England; that they had letters anciently is nothing doubtful, for the Saxons of England are said to have their letters and learning, and learned men, from the Irish.
- Edmund Spenser (writer, and British Government Official in Ireland, AD 1596).
The renaissance began in Ireland seven hundred years before it was known in Italy. And Armagh, the ecclesiastical capital of Ireland, was at one time the metropolis of civilisation.
- Arsene Darmesteter, Professor of Old French and Literature
Ireland can indeed lay claim to a great past; she can not only boast of having been the birthplace and abode of high culture in the fifth and sixth centuries . . . but also of having made strenous efforts in the seventh and up to the tenth century to spread her learning among the German and Romance peoples, thus forming the actual fountain of our present continental civilisation.
- Heinrich Zimmer, Professor of Celtic and Sanskrit, Member of the Prussian Academy of Sciences
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