Song of the Dawn

The song I'll sing is a song of home a song of Roisin Dubh
Of glade and glen of ford and fen of lake and of mountain blue
Of signs that stand o'er all the land to tell of the long ago
Let your voices ring the song I'll sing
Sean-Éire na nGaedheal go deo

Hurrah the night is ended we see the dawn's red glow
For shouted high a freeman's cry
Sean-Éire na nGaedheal go deo

I sing of every wood and stream of tower and vale and town
Where brave men died where brave men tried to tear the red rag down
From Kerry brave to the widest wave where Lagan's waters flow
From Teamhair na Riogh and the winding Lee
Sean-Éire na nGaedheal go deo

Hurrah the night is ended we seen the dawn's red glow
For shouted high a freeman's cry
Sean-Éire na nGaedheal go deo

I raise a rann for the ones who tread the path to the dawning day
Who will pause no more till their
native shore is free from the Saxon sway
Till from every hill and from every rill the freedom cry shall go
From old and young in the Gaelic tongue
Sean-Éire na nGaedheal go deo