As I look out across the sea I stand proud but am I free? A thousand years have come and gone I have won, I will go on Stand firm against the storm I cannot see it but it will come And with the ghosts of a million Gaels I will rise up, I will prevail
You can starve my children You can kill my fighting man Take away my right to freedom And when my back is turned you kill again You can burn my houses Take away all that I have known But the seeds are sown
When the Dane invaded The held the Gael with a strangle-hold Until Boru joined to clans He won the war, re-claimed my lands My green fields have been stained red From the blood of the Irish dead But with this fire that burns inside I will always rebel, I will survive
You can starve my children You can kill my fighting man Take away my right to freedom And when my back is turned you kill again You can burn my houses Take away all that I have known But the seeds are sown