Protestant Men

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The Wolfe Tones

The Wolfe Tones are an Irish rebel music band that incorporate Irish traditional music in their songs. Formed in 1963, they take their name from Theobald Wolfe Tone, one of the leaders of the Irish Rebellion of 1798, with the double meaning of a wolf tone – a spurious sound that can affect instruments of the violin family. more »


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It was back in history's page
The story's told
Of a Napper Tandy, brave and bold
With his scarlet and green, he then was seen
With his big long gun and his fighting men
And they beat at the drum
They fired their gun
And they shook the English establishment
And the Lords and the Peers
They then put fears
And Grattan got his Parliament

So here's to those great protestant men
Who gave their lives to free our land
All the people sang their praises then
For the brave United Irishmen

In Belfast town there lived a man
And his name was Samuel Neilson
A minister's son, Presbyterian
Had a paper called the Northern Star
There was Henry Joy, the Green Volunteers
And Thomas Russell and McCabe and McTeir
And to them was known a man Wolfe Tone
And they formed the first United Men

So here's to those great protestant men
Who gave their lives to free our land
All the people sang their praises then
For the brave United Irishmen

Sow your laws with dragons teeth
And then you'll see
That you've sowed the seeds of bigotry
Be England's fool, divide they'll rule
So they set to break the United Men
And they killed them in the
Fields and some in jail
And some upon the gallows high
When Willie Orr died his very last cry
Was "Unite and fight, brave Irishmen"

So here's to those great protestant men
Who gave their lives to free our land
All the people sang their praises then
For the brave United Irishmen

Cast dissensions to the wind
Let all men lend
To the common name of an Irishman
For across history's page to rant and rage
Men crossed the pails of bigotry
There was the men of '98 no sadder fate
Lord Edward, Tone and the brothers Sheares
It was Emmet's plea in 18 and 3
When he tried to set our country free

So here's to those great protestant men
Who gave their lives to free our land
All the people sang their praises then
For the brave United Irishmen

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