Tuning: Standard (E A D G B E) ♫ Intro: C ♫ Verse 1: C F C On the 28th of January in the year of twenty-one G The IRA were ready with uniform and gun C F C ‘Twas a bitter Friday morning just before daylight G C Near Godfery’s Cross they gathered and waited for the fight F C The British were expected and the ambush it was planned G An escape route was agreed, and now the wait began C F C But Mrs Lindsay knew before and gave the game away G C The British they were well prepared and now were on their way
♫ Chorus: F C All you who fought in Dripsey, On that cold January day F C G Some gave your lives for freedom and others got away C G Am Your deeds will be remembered in our country’s history F C G C You brave and gallant men have helped to set old Ireland free ♫ Verse 2: C F C The local priest had warned them that the British were aware, G The IRA did not believe and kept on waiting there C F C They saw the British coming and they knew it spelt defeat G C Then the IRA commander gave the order to retreat F C Many managed to escape through local fields and glen, G Eight IRA were captured and two local men C F C Five were sentenced for to die by British firing squad G C On the 28th of February to be sent to meet their God ♫ Chorus: F C All you who fought in Dripsey, On that cold January day F C G Some gave your lives for freedom and others got away C G Am Your deeds will be remembered in our country’s history F C G C You brave and gallant men have helped to set old Ireland free ♫ Verse 3: C F C Lindsay she was captured with her chauffer Clarke G And then were taken hostage upon the mountains dark C F C But Lindsay’s letter was ignored, they shot the sentenced men G C In Cork Jail they were laid to rest, we won’t see their likes again F C Lindsay and her chauffer Clarke were destined for to die G The IRA, they killed them, into a common grave to lie C F C Her body it was disinterred and never was returned G C On the night after they both were killed, her “Leemount House” was burned ♫ Chorus: F C All you who fought in Dripsey, On that cold January day F C G Some gave your lives for freedom and others got away C G Am Your deeds will be remembered in our country’s history F C G C You brave and gallant men have helped to set old Ireland free
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