The Halliard - Merry Ploughboy lyrics

Oh I am a merry ploughboy And I plough the fields by day 'til a sudden thought flashed through my mind That I should go away Well I've always hated slavery Since the day that I was born So I'm off to join the IRA And I'm off tomorrow morn And we all off to Dublin in the green in the green With our helmets glistening in the sun Where the bayonets flash and the rifles crash To the echo of the Thompson gun Oh I'll leave aside my old grey coat And I'll leave aside my plough And I'll leave aside my horse and go When I'm [???] me than now And I'll take my shot revolver And me bandolier of lead And live or die I can but try To avenge my country's dead And we all off to Dublin in the green in the green With our helmets glistening in the sun Where the bayonets flash and the rifles crash To the echo of the Thompson gun Now there's one I leave behind me She's the Coleen I adore And I wonder will she think of me When she hears those cannons roar Oh but when the war is over And dear old Ireland's free I'll take her to church to wed And a rebel's wife she'll be And we all off to Dublin in the green in the green With our helmets glistening in the sun Where the bayonets flash and the rifles crash To the echo of the Thompson gun Oh I am a merry ploughboy And I plough the field by day 'til a sudden thought flashed through my mind That I should run away Well I've always hated slavery Since the day that I was born So I'm off to join the IRA And I'm off tomorrow morn And we all off to Dublin in the green in the green With our helmets glistening in the sun Where the bayonets flash and the rifles crash To the echo of the Thompson gun