Oh! Paddy, dear, and did you hear
The news that's going round,
The shamrock is by law forbid
To grow on Irish ground.
Saint Patrick's Day no more we'll keep
His color can't be seen
For they're hangin' men and women
for wearin' of the green

I met with Napper Tandy
And he took me by the hand
He said "How's dear old Ireland?
And how does she stand?"
She's the most distressful country
That you have ever seen,
For they're hangin' men and women
For wearin' of the green.

For the wearin' of the green,
for the wearin' of the green.
They're hangin' men and women
for the wearin' of the green.

And since the color we must wear
Is England's cruel red
Sure Ireland's sons will n'er forget
The blood that they have shed.
You may take the shamrock from your hat
And cast it on the sod,
But 'twill take root and flourish there
Tho' underfoot 'tis trod.

My father loved his country
and sleeps within its breast.
But I that one have died for her
Must never soul be blessed.
Those tears my mother shed for me,
How bitter they had been,
If I had proved the traitor
To the wearin' of the green.

For the wearin' of the green,
for the wearin' of the green.
They're hangin' men and women
for the wearin' of the green.

But if at last our color should
Be torn from Ireland's heart,
Her sons with shame and sorrow
From the dear old isle will part.
I've heard a whisper of a land
That lies beyond the see,
Where rich and poor stand equal
In the light of freedom's day.

Oh, Ireland! Must we leave you,
Driven by a tyrant's hand?
And seek a mother's blessing
From a strange and distant land?
Where the cruel cross of England
Shall never more be seen
And in that land we live and die
Still wearing Ireland's green.

For the wearin' of the green,
for the wearin' of the green.
They're hangin' men and women
for the wearin' of the green.

For the wearin' of the green,
for the wearin' of the green.
They're hangin' men and women
for the wearin' of the green.

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