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The Tri Coloured Ribbon lyrics

The Wolfe Tones

I had a true love if ever a girl had one
I had a true love a brave lad was he
One fine Easter Monday with his gallant comrades
He started away for to make Ireland free

For all around my hat I wear a tri-coloured ribbon, oh
All around my hat until death comes to me
And if anybody's asking me why do I wear it
It's all for my own true love I never more will see

He whispered "Goodbye love, old Ireland is calling
High over Dublin our Tri-colour flies
In the streets of the city the foe man is falling
And wee birds are whistling "Old Ireland arise"

For all around my hat I wear a tri-coloured ribbon, oh
All around my hat until death comes to me
And if anybody's asking me why do I wear it
It's all for my own true love I never more will see

In praying and watching the dark hours passed over
The roar of the guns brought no message to me
I prayed for Old Ireland, I prayed for my lover
That he might be safe and Old Ireland be free

For all around my hat I wear a tri-coloured ribbon, oh
All around my hat until death comes to me
And if anybody's asking me why do I wear it
It's all for my own true love I never more will see

The struggle was ended, they brought me the story
The last whispered message he sent unto me
"I was true to my land, love, I fought for her glory
And gave up my life for to make Ireland free"

For all around my hat I wear a tri-coloured ribbon, oh
All around my hat until death comes to me
And if anybody's asking me why do I wear it
It's all for my own true love I never more will see


Song Details

Irish Ribbon
A Tri Coloured Ribbon

Author: Unknown - Early 19th century song of English origins named All Around My Hat - sometimes referred to as Green Willow.

This version on of the song is an adaptation by Peadar Kearney - Irish Republican and composer of many rebel songs.

Brief: A republican lass swears to wear the Irish tri-colour in her hat in remembrance of a lover who died in the Easter Rising of 1916.

Category: Irish Rebel Song

Covers: Antoinette Cruise, The Druids, Tom Sweeney, Her Pillow, Peg Clancy Power..

Album by The Wolfe Tones - Up the Rebels (Jan 01, 1999).

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