Lyrics - Kelly The Boy From Killanne by Clancy Brothers

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