The Patriot Game

Judy Collins - The Patriot Game CAPO: 1st Fret [Intro]        [Verse 1] Come all ye young rebels and list while I sing For the love of one’s country___ is a terrible thing It banishes fear with the speed of a flame And it makes us all a part of the patriot game [Verse 2] My name is O’Hanlon and I’ve just gone sixteen My home is in Monaghan where I was weaned I’ve learned all my life cruel England to blame And so I’m a part of the patriot game [Verse 3] It’s nearly two years since I wandered away With the local battalion___ of the bold IRA I’ve read of our heroes and I wanted the same To play out my part in the patriot game [Verse 4] They told me how Connolly was shot in the chair His wounds from the battle all bleeding and bare His fine body twisted all battered and lame They soon made me part of the patriot game [Verse 5] This Ireland of ours has for long been half free Six counties are under John Bull’s tyranny So I gave up my boyhood___ to drill and to train To play my own part in the patriot game [Verse 6] And now as I lie here my body all holes I think of those traitors who bargained in souls I wish that my rifle had given the same To those quislings who sold out the patriot game