Smashing of the Van
Chumbawamba
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Attend you gallant Irishmen and listen for a while I'll sing to you the praises of the sons of Erin's Isle It's of those gallant heroes who voluntarily ran To release two Irish shamrocks from an English prison van [Chorus] My lads for freedom, let's all join heart and hand May the Lord have mercy on the boys that helped to smash the van On the eighteenth of September, it was a dreadful year When sorrow and excitement ran throughout all Lancashire At a gathering of the Irish boys they volunteered each man To release those Irish prisoners out of the prison van [Chorus] In Manchester one morning those heroes did agree Their leaders, Kelly and Deasy, should have their liberty They drank a health to Ireland and soon made up the plan To meet the prisoners on the road and take and smash the van [Chorus] With courage bold those heroes went and soon the van did stop They cleared the guards from back and front and then smashed in the top But in blowing open of the lock, they chanced to kill a man So three men must die on the scaffold high for smashing of the van [Chorus] So now kind friends I will conclude, I think it would be right That all true-hearted Irishmen together should unite Together should sympathize, my friends, and do the best we can To keep the memories ever green of the boys that smashed the van [Chorus]
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Written by: ALICE NUTTER, ALLEN WHALLEY, BRUCE DUNSTAN, DARREN HAMER, JUDITH ABBOTT, LOUISE WATTS, NIGEL HUNTER, PAUL GRECO
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