Album: The Platinum Collection
Was at Siege of Limerick that
Patrick Sarsfield won the day
but they Irish they were cheated
when his army went away
then Queen Ann and her successors
enforced on us those Penal Laws
denying their rights and liberty
of religion lands and property
Murder plunder faugh a balla clear the way
cheating stealing diddle idle de
ducking diving faugh a bala clear the way
diddlily i dle de di diddly idle do
Then came the three mad Georges
and they had us nearly fooled
they couldn't speak the lingo
of the coutries that they ruled
puppets of the ascendancy they kept the Irish down
but the rebels and the whiteboys kept
their armies and their forces on the run
You'll never beat the Irish
no matter what you do
you can put us down and keep us out
but we'll come back again
you know we are the fighting Irish
and we'll fight until the end
you should have known
you'll never beat the Irish
Then the famine Queen Victoria
came to rule us by and by
she was on the throne so bloody long
we thought she'd never die
she presided over hunger
famine poverty and disease
she drove the people from their home
to their deaths or lands beyond the foam
Murder plunder faugh a balla clear the way
cheating stealing diddle idle de
ducking diving faugh a bala clear the way
diddlily i dle de di diddly idle do
Across the 19th century we fought oppression
with great zeal
O'Connell spoke his blarney
for emancipation and repeal
Young Ireland and the Fenians
tried with dynamite and gun
Parnell, the Men of Sixteen, then Collins
had their army on the run
You'll never beat the Irish
no matter what you do
you can kill us off and put us down
but we'll come back again
and exterminate us too
we are the fighting Irish
we'll fight untill the end
you should've known
You'd never beat the Irish
Murder plunder faugh a balla clear the way
cheating stealing diddle idle de
ducking diving faugh a bala clear the way
diddlily i dle de di diddly idle do