Lines on the Phoenix Park Murder Which took place on May 6, 1882.
The victims being Lord Fredrick Cavindish, and Mr. Burke and the following names were executed for the same: Joseph Brady, May 14th. Daniel Curly, May 18th. Michael Fagan, May 28th. Thomas Caffrie, June 2nd. [Thimothy] Kelly, June 9th. All was in 1883.
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All you brave sons of Erin
That love the old country
Your attention I'll call
One moment or two.
No one ever heard of
In this present century
The dark deeds of bloodshed
That's now in our view.
Within those few years
Such dark deeds of murder
Has been told by James Carry
His own neck for to save.
He led them that day
To that fatal murder
And by his information
Sent five to the grave.
Chorus
Young Kelly and Brady
Has died for their country
To [annihilate] those tyrants
Was their constant cry.
This life did depart
Full of love for auld Erin
Within the walls of [Kilmannion]
Now consigned to lie.
People will say
It was a cold blooded murder
Those words I'll confute
Without any delay.
There are deaths by starvation
Hanged and been quartered
For they would [not] their creed
Or their country forsake.
Just watch them [at] present
By such cruel evictions
Turns them out of their homes
Where tradition scarce trace.
[Fearing] starvation
The old and the harmless
That's the cause of all crime
In my native place.
On the sixth day of May
On that fatal evening
Young Kelly and Brady
Soon did [repair].
No thought of informers
They little expected
Moreover James Carry
Who was as loyal and fair.
When the signal was given
They soon followed after
With revenge for their country
Inflamed in their hearts.
And in a few moments
Their bodies were lying
As dead King [Harry]
In the Phenix Park.
Now this dark deed of murder
Is past and all over
And five of our sons
Has died for the same.
I hope now the public
Don't speak harsh of Erin
Although her sons done it
She's not for to blame.
Now if all the sons of Erin
Was like those young heros
Bound we would not
By tyrants strong chain.
We could rise up as one
And then we could tell them
That Ireland was Ireland
Itself once again.
