(spoken)

Sad are the homes 'round Garryowen

Since lost their giant pride.

And the banshee cry links every vale

Around the Shannon side

That city of the ancient walls

The broken treaty stone, undying fame

Surrounds your name - Sean South of Garryowen

(sung)

G

'Twas on a dreary New Year's Eve

C G

As the shades of night came down

C G C Am D7

A lorry load of volunteers approached a border town

G C G

There were men from Dublin and from Cork

C Am D7

Fermanagh and Tyrone

G

But the leader was a Limerick man -

C G

Sean South from Garryowen
(Repeat the above chords for aubsequent verses)

And as they moved along the street
Up to the barracks door

They scorned the danger they might meet

Their fate that lay in store

They were fighting for old Ireland's cause

To claim their very own

And the foremost of that gallant band

Was South of Garryowen

But the sergeant spoiled their daring plan
He spied them through the door

The Sten guns and the rifles

A hail of death did pour

And when that awful night was passed

Two men lay cold as stone

There was one from near the border

And one from Garryowen

No more he will hear the seagull's cry
O'er the murmuring Shannon tide

For he fell beneath a northern sky

Brave Hanlon by his side

They have gone to join that gallant band

Of Plunkett, Pearse, and Tone

Another martyr for old Ireland

Sean South from Garryowen

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