Patriot Game Lyrics - Kingston Trio

Come all you young rebels and list while we sing 

For the love of one's country is a terrible thing 

It banishes fear with the speed of a flame 

And it makes us all part of the patriot game 

My name is O'Hannon and I've just gone sixteen 

My home is in Monaghan where I was weaned 

I've learned all my life cruel England's to blame 

And so I'm a part of the patriot game 

This Ireland of ours has for long been half-free 

Six counties are under John Bull's tyranny 

So, we gave up our boyhood to drill and to train 

To play our own part in the patriot game 

It's barely two years since they wandered away 

And it was with the local battalion of the bold IRA 

For they'd read of our heroes and they wanted the same 

To play their own part in the patriot game