Paddy Goes To Holyhead - Kelly The Boy From Killane

Kelly The Boy From Killane

What´s the news What´s the news
O my bold Shelmalier
With your long-barrelled gun of the sea
Say, what wind from the sun
blows his messenger here
With a hymn of the dawn for the free
"Goodly news goodly news
do I bring youth of Forth,
Goodly news do I bring Bargy man
For the boys march at dawn
from the south to the north
Led by Kelly the boy from Killanne

Tell me who is the giant
with the gold curling hair
He who rides at the head of the band
Seven feet is his height
with some inches to spare
And he looks like a king in command
"Oh, me boys, that´s the pride
of the bold Shelmaliers
Mongst our greatest of heroes, a man
Fling your beavers aloft
and give three rousing cheers
for John Kelly, the boy from Killanne

Enniscorthy´s in flames
and old Wexford is won
And the Barrow tomorrow we cross.
On a hill o´er the town
we have planted a gun
That will batter the gateways to Ross
All the Forth men and Bargy men
march over the heath
With brave Harvey to lead on the van
But the foremost of all
in that grim gap of death
Will be Kelly, the boy from Killanne

But the gold sun of freedom
grew darkened at Ross
And it set by the Slaney´s red waves
And poor Wexford stript naked
hung high on a cross
With her heart pierced
by traitors and slaves
Glory O Glory O
to her brave sons who died
For the cause of long-down-trodden man
Glory O to mount Leinster´s
own darling and pride
Dauntless Kelly the boy from Killanne