Chorus: So it’s pull down the watchtowers you’re going home at last Say farewell to Bellaghy, Carrickmore and West Belfast With your kit-bag on your shoulder and a tear all in your eye Well pardon me for smiling while you’re waving me goodbye
You say you came to save us in the year of sixty-nine But you stayed to stop the orange state’ from falling to decline When it came to Bloody Sunday you showed the world what you could do Fourteen dead men on Derry’s streets your true colours they shone through
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You found you could not beat us after thirty years of war In of all your Choppers, foot-patrols and armoured cars We never will surrender or get on our knees and beg So go crowling back to England with your trail between your legs
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You say you’re sad to leave us but we have no regrets You’ve left behind a legacy we )never will forget From Dunloy to Drumnakilly you carved out your bloody name Your hands are stepped in Irish blood so hang your heads in shame
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Well pardon me for smiling while you’re waving me goodbye