[ti:The Foggy Dew] [ar:Patsy Watchorn/Tommy Makem] [al:20 Greatest Ever Irish Pub Songs, Vol. 1] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]The Foggy Dew - Patsy Watchorn [00:08.48]It was down the glen one Easter morn [00:12.98]To a city fair rode I [00:17.28]There armed lines of marching men [00:21.51]In squadrons passed me by [00:25.86]No fife did hum nor battle drum [00:30.17]Did sound it's dread tattoo [00:34.42]But the Angelus bell o'er the Liffey swell [00:38.74]Rang out through the foggy dew [00:43.03]Right proudly high over dublin' sky [00:47.37]They hung out the flag of war [00:51.45]It was better to die neath an Irish sky [00:55.82]Than at Sulva or Sud El Bar [01:00.14]And from the plains of Royal Meath [01:04.33]Strong men came hurrying through [01:08.48]While Britannia's Huns with their long range guns [01:13.00]Sailed in to the foggy dew [01:17.40]Twas Britannia bade our Wild Geese go [01:21.41]That small nations might be free [01:25.80]But their lonely graves are by Sulva's waves [01:29.98]Or the shore of the Great North Sea [01:34.45]Oh had they died by Pearse's side [01:38.71]Or fought with Cathal Brugha [01:42.86]Their names we will keep [01:44.71]Where the fenians sleep [01:47.26]Neath the shroud of the foggy dew [01:59.92]But the bravest fell and the requiem bell [02:04.31]Rang mournfully and clear [02:08.76]For those who died that Easter tide [02:12.78]In the springing time of the year [02:17.28]And the world did gaze in deep amaze [02:21.31]At those fearless men and dew [02:25.59]They bore the fight that freedom's light [02:29.97]Might shine through the foggy dew [02:34.16]Back through the glen I rode again [02:38.57]And my heart with grief was sore [02:42.99]For I parted then with valiant men [02:47.17]Whom I never shall see more [02:51.47]I'm truely fro in my dreams I go [02:55.71]And I'd kneel and pray for you [02:59.89]For slavery fled [03:04.29]O glorious dead [03:08.62]When you fell in the foggy dew