"The Rifles of the IRA" (en aragonés Os Rifles d'o IRA) ye una canción popular rebel irlandesa. De seguro escrita entre os anyos 1916-1922, ya que os feitos descritos en a canción escayeixioron mientres a Guerra Anglo-Irlandesa. O grupo The Wolfe Tones gravó esta canción en o suyo album de l'anyo 1991.
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In nineteen hundred and sixteen The forces of the crown To take the orange,white and green, Bombarded Dublin Town But in '21, Brittania's sons Were forced to earn their pay, When the Black and tans, Like lightning ran From the rifles of the IRA!
They burned their way through Munster And laid Leinster on the rack In Connaught and then Ulster Marched those men of brown and black They shot down wives and children In their own heroic way And the Black and Tans, Like lightning ran From the rifles of the IRA!
They hanged young Kevin Barry high A lad of eighteen years Cork City's flames lit up in the sky But our brave boys knew no fear The Cork brigade with hand grenades In ambush wait and lay, And the black and tans, Like lightning ran From the Rifles of the IRA!
The tans, they were got, taken out and shot By our brave and our fearless few Sean Treacy, Dinny Lacey And Tom Barry's gallant crew Though we're not free yet, we won't forget Until our dying day, How the black and tans, Like lightning ran From the Rifles of the IRA! How the black and tans, Like lightning ran From the Rifles of the IRA!
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