The Ballad Archive
A collection of mainly Irish song lyrics. You will also find plenty of Scottish and some English, American and Australian lyrics too. Online since 1996.
Foggy Dew (The) (2)
As down the glen one Easter morn To a city fair rode I There Armed lines…
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Follow Me Up To Carlow
Lift MacCahir ogue your face Brooding o’er the old disgrace That black FitzWilliam stormed your place…
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For Ireland I’d Not Tell Her Name
Last eve as I wandered quite near To the borders of my little farm A beautiful…
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For What Died The Sons Of RóisÃn
For what died the sons of RóisÃn, was it fame? For what died the sons of…
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Four Green Fields
“What did I have?”, said the fine old woman “What did I have?”, this proud old…
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Fourteen Men
And there was fourteen on, fourteen was off Jimmy on the sideline havin a gawk Heffo…
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Free The People
Laws were made for people And the law can never scorn The right of a man…
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Freedom Come All Ye
Roch the wind in the clear days dawin Blows the cloods heelstre-gowdie ow’r the bay But…
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Freedom’s Sons
At Easter time, nineteen-sixteen When flowers bloomed and leaves were green There dawned a day when…
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From Clare To Here
Four who shared this room and we were caught up in the crack Sleeping late on…
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