We'll sing a song, a soldier's
song,
With cheering rousing chorus,
As round our blazing fires we
throng,
The starry heavens o'er us;
Impatient for the coming fight,
And as we wait the morning's
light,
Here in the silence of the night,
We'll chant a soldier's song.

Chorus:

Soldiers are we
whose lives are pledged to
Ireland;
Some have come
from a land beyond the wave.
Sworn to be free,
No more our ancient sire land
Shall shelter the despot or the
slave.
Tonight we man the gap of
danger
In Erin's cause, come woe or
weal
'Mid cannons' roar and rifles
peal,
We'll chant a soldier's song.

In valley green, on towering
crag,
Our fathers fought before us,
And conquered 'neath the same
old flag
That's proudly floating o'er us.
We're children of a fighting
race,
That never yet has known
disgrace,
And as we march, the foe to
face,
We'll chant a soldier's song.

Chorus

Sons of the Gael! Men of the
Pale!
The long watched day is
breaking;
The serried ranks of Inisfail
Shall set the Tyrant quaking.
Our camp fires now are
burning low;
See in the east a silv'ry glow,
Out yonder waits the Saxon
foe,
So chant a soldier's song.

Chorus

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