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Verse 1
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T'was on a dreary New Year's Eve
DO SOL
As the shades of night came down
DO SOL
A lorry load of volunteers
DO LAm RE7
Approached the border town
SOL DO SOL
There were men from Dublin and from Cork
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Fermanagh and Tyrone
SOL
And the leader was a Limerick man-
DO SOL
Sean South from Garryowen
Verse 2
As they moved along the street
Up to the barracks door
They scorned the danger they might face
Their fate that lay in store
They were fighting for old Ireland's cause
To claim their very own
And the foremost of that gallant band
Was South from Garryowen
Verse 3
But the sergeant spied their daring plan
He spied them through the door
The Sten guns and the rifles
A hail of death did pour
And when that awful night was passed
Two men lay as cold as stone
There was one from near the border
And one from Garryowen
Verse 4
No more will he hear the seagull's cry
Over the murmuring Shannon tide
For he fell beneath a northern sky
Brave Hanlon by his side
They had gone to join that gallant band
Of Plunkett, Pearse and Tone
A martyr for old Ireland
Sean South from Garryowen
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