A Soldiers Song (irish National Anthem English Ver) Lyrics - Singles - Wolfe Tones

English 

We'll sing a song, a soldier's song, 

With cheering rousing chorus, 

As round our blazing fires we throng, 

The starry heavens o'er us; 

Impatient for the coming fight, 

And as we wait the morning's light, 

Here in the silence of the night, 

We'll chant a soldier's song. 

Chorus: 

Soldiers are we 

Whose lives are pledged to Ireland; 

Some have come 

From a land beyond the wave. 

Sworn to be free, 

No more our ancients Ireland 

Shall shelter the despot or the slave. 

Tonight we man the gap of danger 

In Erin's cause, come woe or weal 

"Mid cannons" roar and rifles peal, 

We'll chant a soldier's song. 

In valley green, on towering crag, 

Our fathers fought before us, 

And conquered 'neath the same old flag 

That's proudly floating o'er us. 

We're children of a fighting race, 

That never yet has known disgrace, 

And as we march, the foe to face, 

We'll chant a soldier's song.