Patriot Game Lyrics

(all)
Come all you young rebels, and list while we sing,
For the love of one's country is a terrible thing.
It banishes fear with the speed of a flame,
And it makes us all part of the patriot game.

(solo)
My name is O'Hannon, and I'm just gone sixteen.
My home is in Monaghan,* where I was weaned.
I've learned all my life cruel England's to blame,
And so I'm a part of the patriot game.

(all)
This Ireland of ours has for long been half-free;
Six counties are under John Bull's tyranny.Kingston Trio - Patriot Game - http://motolyrics.com/kingston-trio/patriot-game-lyrics.html
So we gave up our boyhood to drill and to train
To play our own part in the patriot game

(solo spoken in cadence with others humming in background)
It's barely two years since they wandered away,
And it was with the local battalion of the bold IRA,
For they'd read of our heroes, and they wanted the same,
To play their own part in the patriot game.

(solo)
And now as I lie here, my body all holes,
I think of those traitors who bargained in souls,
I wished that my rifle had given the same,
To those Quislings who sold out the patriot game.