Tonart: D major
Verse 1
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In Dublin town, one Easter morn,
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a hun dred years ago,
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The rebels led a rising
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from the city's GPO
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Brave heroes an d their enemies fell,
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civilians in between
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And among the dead and fallen
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were
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The Children of Sixteen
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tenement slums
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Who daily with their pals
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A brazen wild brigade sprang up
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Between the two canals
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With their hand -carts over
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cobbled stone
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They rattled skid and toe
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Barefooted as they
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The cross, fire and the gold
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A war zone of the capital,
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the bombs and shelling made
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An d snipers' bullet
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s pierced and whipped
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the suffered April haze
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There was fighting from the Union
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to the mill above the green
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And it made a great excitement
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for the children of sixteen
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Six days had been the rebels' pay
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A grave and bloody toll
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But through their blood
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and martyrdom,
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Republic soon was born.
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High are lofted streets and
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buildings now,
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Their names can e 'er be seen,
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But still missing from the pages
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are the children of sixteen
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Nor Pierce, nor Clark, McDonough,
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nor the Connolly we know
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Would rest where they remembered
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on a pedestal not on
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And are they not the fathers
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of our nation proud and free
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And our sisters an d
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our brothers then,
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Abdim
the children of sixty
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Abdim
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