THE MERRY PLOUGHBOY (OFF TO DUBLIN IN THE GREEN)

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Song Title
THE MERRY PLOUGHBOY (OFF TO DUBLIN IN THE GREEN)
Writers
Behan
Publisher
MELODY TRAILS, INC. (BMI)
Co-Publisher
Non-TRO Affiliate
% Publisher Controls
100%
Territory Controlled
US AND CANADA
Themes/Keywords
1960's, Farmer, Fields, Green, Ireland, Leaving, Merry, Rebellion, Slavery, Thunder, War, Work
Lyrics
I am a merry ploughboy,
And I ploughed the fields by day,
Until the light’ning flashed across my mind
That I should run away;
I’ve always hated slavery
Since the day that I was born,
So I’m off to join the I,R.A.,
And I’m off tomorrow morn.

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I’m off to Dublin
In the green, in the green,
Where bayonets glistened in the sun;
Where the rifles flashed,
And the thunder crashed
To the echo of a Thompson gun.

I leave aside my old gray coat,
I leave aside my plough,
I leave aside my horse and yoke
For no more I’ll need them now,
I’ll take my short revolver
And my bandolier of lead,
And live or die I can but try
To avenge my country’s dead.

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There’s one I leave behind me,
The cailin I adore,
I wonder will she think of me
When she hears them cannons roar,
But when the war is over
And dear old Ireland’s free,
I’ll take her to the church to wed,
And a rebel’s wife she’ll be.

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