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My name is Tim McDonald, I'm a native of the Isle,
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Was born among old Erin's bogs when I was but a child.
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My father fought in " 'Ninety-eight," for liberty so dear;
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He fell upon old Vinegar Hill, like an Irish volunteer.
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Then raise the harp of Erin, boys, the flag we all revere
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We'll fight and fall beneath its folds, like Irish volunteers!
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Then raise the harp of Erin, boys, the flag we all revere
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We'll fight and fall beneath its folds, like Irish volunteers!
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When I was driven from my home by an oppressor's hand,
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I cut my sticks and greased me brogues, and came o'er to this land.
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I found a home and many friends, and some that I love dear;
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Be jabbers! I'll stick to them like bricks and an Irish volunteer.
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Then fill your glasses up, me boys, and drink a hearty cheer,
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To the land of our adoption and the Irish volunteers!
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Then fill your glasses up, me boys, and drink a hearty cheer,
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To the land of our adoption and the Irish volunteers!
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Now when the traitors in the South commenced a war-like raid,
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I quickly then laid down my hod, to the devil went my spade!
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To a recruiting office then I went, that happened to be near,
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And joined the good old "Sixty-ninth," like an Irish volunteer.
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Then fill the ranks and march away, no traitors do we fear!
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We'll drive them all to blazes, says the Irish volunteer.
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Then fill the ranks and march away, no traitors do we fear!
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We'll drive them all to blazes, says the Irish volunteer.
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When the Prince of Wales came over here, and made a hubbaboo,
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Oh, everybody turned out, you know, in gold and tinsel too;
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But then the good old Sixty-ninth didn't like these lords or peers
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They wouldn't give a damn for kings, the Irish volunteers!
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We love the Land of Liberty, its laws we will revere,
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"But the devil take the nobility!" says the Irish volunteer
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We love the Land of Liberty, its laws we will revere,
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"But the devil take the nobility!" says the Irish volunteer
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Now if the traitors in the South should ever cross our roads,
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We'll drive them to the devil, as Saint Patrick did the toads;
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We'll give them all short nooses that come just below the ears,
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Made strong and good of Irish hemp by Irish volunteers.
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Then here's to brave McClennan whom the army now reveres
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He'll lead us on to victory, the Irish volunteers.
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Then here's to brave McClellan, whom the army now reveres
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He'll lead us on to victory, the Irish volunteers.
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Now fill your glasses up, my boys, a toast come drink with me,
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May Erin's Harp and the Starry Flag united ever be;
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May traitors quake, and rebels shake, and tremble in their fears,
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When next they meet the Yankee boys and Irish volunteers!
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God bless the name of Washington! that name this land reveres;
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Success to Meagher and Nugent, and their Irish volunteers!
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God bless the name of Washington! that name this land reveres;
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Success to Meagher and Nugent, and their Irish volunteers!
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