"The Soldier's Song" is the national anthem of Ireland. Lyrics by Peadar Kearney. Music by Patrick Heeney / Peadar Kearney. Adopted in 1926.
Lyrics: 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 await the morning light Here in the silence of the night We'll chant the soldier's song
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 sireland, Shall shelter the despot or the slave. Tonight we man the "bearna baoil" In Erins cause, come woe or weal, Mid cannon's roar and rifles' peal, We'll chant the soldier's song.
In valley green, on towering crag Our fathers fought before us And conquered 'neath the same old flag Thats 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 Well chant the soldier's song
Soldiers are we...
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 the soldier's song.