To Youth (my Sweet Roisin Dubh) Lyrics - Flogging Molly

Tell me why must a man be of service 

To his Lord and the Gods seldom high? 

From the grave sprang the name of our fathers 

But there's no glint in a dead man's eye 

Tell me why our fields filled with hunger 

And fruitless the crop bittered soil? 

So I say my farewell to a nation 

As the leaf waves goodbye to its sun 

So it's to youth I sing you this story 

And it's of youth I sing it now 

Like the train that derailed without warning 

I must leave what I left far behind 

So goodbye sweet Roisin Dubh, I say goodbye 

Tell me why must our peace be this puzzle 

That fractures the land splinters war? 

The last nail sank the shame on our coffin 

But in the end we must all die alone 

So it's to youth I sing you this story 

And it's of youth I sing it now 

Like the train that derailed without warning 

Some must leave what they left far behind 

So goodbye sweet Roisin Dubh, I say goodbye 

And the bark fell from tree to the ground that now bleeds 

On the anguish that never learnt to shout 

When the clash of the drum will surrender the gun 

And of this sadness we shall no longer speak 

Until tank and the bomb are but all forgotten songs 

That's when I and we will sing again 

So goodbye to my love, my sweet Roisin Dubh 

Goodbye now until we meet again 

Tell me why must our grief still be grieving 

For a language that never spoke its loss? 

But this tongue spit with fire will tear down the barbwire 

And rip the belly from the waxy ghost 

So it's to youth I sing you this story 

And it's of youth I sing it now 

Like the train that derailed without warning 

We must leave what we left far behind 

So it's to youth I sing you this story 

And it's of youth I sing it now 

Like the train that derailed without warning 

We must leave what we left far behind 

So goodbye sweet Roisin Dubh, I say goodbye 

So goodbye sweet Roisin Dubh, I say goodbye 

Until we meet again, until we meet again 

Until we meet again, she'll rise to beautify 

But slumber now must rest o' my Roisin Dubh 

I'll forever love the youth you once possessed