Wolfe Tones - Connaught Rangers lyrics

To the tiny homesteads of the West The recruiting sergeant came He promised all a future bright So the brave young men went off to fight For the empire and her might And many's the victory they had won Many the hardships they had seen They fought and died, side by side Their enemies they had defied and for a foreign king And the drums they were a beating time While the pipes did loudly play When Daly died, the drums did beat That morning in the Dagshai heat Now we'll beat the drums no more While serving in a far off land The news had come from home Of a peoples' fate it did relate Of the tans and their campaign of hate And we're fighting on their side Arise Arise young Daly cried Come join along with me We'll strike a blow for Liberty Our regiment will mutiny and support our friends at home And the drums they were a beating time While the pipes did loudly play When Daly died, the drums did beat That morning in the Dagshai heat Now we'll beat the drums no more And the Colonel stood before his troops Those men who mutineed He told them of those honours won But the men stood in the blazing sun Saying we'll fight your wars no more For cannon fodder we had been For the French at Waterloo at Suvla and Sud Elbar We fought your every bloody war And we'll fight you wars to more And the drums they were a beating time While the pipes did loudly play When Daly died, the drums did beat That morning in the Dagshai heat Now we'll beat the drums no more Those men got penal servitude And Daly's condemned to die Far from his home in Tyrellpa** This young man's died in Ireland's cause Far from his native land And the drums they were a beating time While the pipes did loudly play When Daly died, the drums did beat That morning in the Dagshai heat Now we'll beat the drums no more