Tonart: D major
Verse 1
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What's the news? What's
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the news? O my bold Shelmalier,
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With your long- barrelled gun,
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Say, what wind from the sun
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blows his messenger here
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With a hymn of the dawn
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"Goodly news, goodly news,
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do I bring, youth of Forth,
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Goodly news do I bring, Bargy man!
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For the boys march at dawn
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from the south to the north
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Led by Kelly, the boy from Killanne!"
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Tell
Verse 2
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with the gold curling hair,
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He who rides at the head of the band?
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Seven feet is his height,
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with some inches to spare
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And he looks like a king in command!
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"Oh, me boys, that's the pride of the bold Shelmaliers,
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"Mongst our greatest of heroes, a man!
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Fling your beavers aloft and
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give three rousing cheers,
For John Kelly,
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the boy from Killanne!"
Verse 3
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Enniscorthy's in flames,
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and old Wexford is won,
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And the Barrow tomorrow we cross.
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On a hill o'er the town we
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That will batter the gateways to Ross!
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All the Forth men and Bargy men
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With brave Harvey to lead on the van;
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But the foremost of all in
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Will be Kelly, the boy from Killanne!
Verse 4
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But the gold sun of freedom
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grew darkened at Ross
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And it set by the Slaney's red
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And poor Wexford, stript naked,
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hung high on a cross
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With her heart pierced by
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Glory O! Glory O! to her
brave sons who died
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Glory O! to mount Leinster's own
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Dauntless Kelly, the boy from Killanne!
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