Name: Sean Sabhat from Garryowen
Duration: P00H03M54S
Description: Recorded in a session in the Gaelic Club with Scotty on viola and his young fella on fiddle. They know the tune as Roddy McCorleys .

Sean Sabhat from Garryowen

from Exile on iPad by Mark O'Connor

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Recorded in a session in the Gaelic Club with Scotty on viola and his young fella on fiddle. They know the tune as Roddy McCorleys .

lyrics

T'was on a dreary New Years Eve
As the shades of night came down
A lorry load of volunteers approached the border town
There were men from Dublin and from Cork, Fermanagh and Tyrone
And the leader was a Limerick man - Sean South from Garryowen

As they moved along the street up to the barracks door
They scorned the danger they might face
Their fate that lay instore
They were fighting for old Ireland to claim their very own
And the foremost of that gallant band
Was South from Garryowen

But the seargent spied their daring plan
He spied them trough the door
The Sten guns and the rifles a hail of death did pour
And when that awful night had passed
Two men lay cold a stone
There was one from near the border and one from Garryowen

No more wil he hear the seagull's cry
Over the murmurring Shannon tide
For he fell beneath a Northern sky brave Hanlon by his side
They have gone to join that gallant band
Of Plunkett, Pearse and Tone
A martyr for old Ireland
Sean South from Garryowen

credits

from Exile on iPad, released July 13, 2015
Mark O'Connor - guitar + voice
Graham Scott - viola
Scotty's youngfella (name tbc) - fiddle

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Mark O'Connor Limerick, Ireland

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