Tom: G
[INTRO:] C G D G
[VERSE 1:]
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Come all ye young rebels, and list while I sing
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For the love of one's country___ is a terrible thing
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It banishes fear with the speed of a flame
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And it makes us all a part of the patriot game
[VERSE 2:]
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My name is O'Hanlon and I've just gone sixteen
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My home is in Monaghan, where I was weaned
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I've learned all my life, cruel England to blame
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And so I'm a part of the patriot game
[VERSE 3:]
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It's nearly two years since I wandered away
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With the local battalion___ of the bold IRA
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I've read of our heroes, and I wanted the same
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To play out my part in the patriot game
[VERSE 4:]
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They told me how Connolly was shot in the chair
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His wounds from the battle all bleeding and bare
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His fine body twisted, all battered and lame
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They soon made me part of the patriot game
[VERSE 5:]
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This Ireland of ours has for long been half free
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Six counties are under John Bull's tyranny
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So I gave up my boyhood___ to drill and to train
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To play my own part in the patriot game
[VERSE 6:]
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And now as I lie here, my body all holes
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I think of those traitors who bargained and sold
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I wish that my rifle had given the same
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To those quislings who sold out the patriot game
