Tonalité : A minor
Verse 1
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From the bells
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of England's prison cells
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In '67, one last time
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They filled up a southbound
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floating jail
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And on its fateful passage it set sail
Verse 2
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And aboard that vessel too did go
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Some 60 Fenian boys
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They were loaded on the
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Hougoumont
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And led out amidst the cry
Verse 3
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"Farewell to all the convict ways
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To being slaves without
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the name of slaves
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Farewell to all the convict ways
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They'll be the last we'll see
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in irons and chains"
Verse 4
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And with them, as
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they sped the wild waves o'er
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Bringing poetry and news
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With their spirits, overhead did soar
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A sage and wild goose
Verse 5
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And when around that final
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coast they'd steer
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Into famed Freemantle Bay
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It's reported that all souls on board
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Heard the wild waves and
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the wild winds say
Verse 6
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"Farewell to all the convict ways
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To being slaves without
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the name of slaves
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Farewell to all the convict ways
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They'll be the last we'll see in
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irons and chains"
Verse 7
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But when one among
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them did escape
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That barren jailer's land
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Those behind him,
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he did not forsake
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Nor would rest 'til each
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one had been saved
Verse 8
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For he knew all men inside must feel
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That burning to be free
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And when any languished in a cage
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Not a single one of them could say
Verse 9
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"Farewell to all the convict ways
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To being slaves without
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the name of slaves
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Farewell to all the convict ways
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We'll be the last they'll see in irons
Interlude 1
and chains"
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Csus4
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Verse 10
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Someday, the men of this
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crude world will know
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As John Boyle O'Reilly knew
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That no man is free when free alone
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No man is free when free alone
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That one soul in chains is all in chains
Verse 11
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That one soul enslaved is
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all en slaved
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And that all mankind is in the few
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And when all the life that they have seen
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And one hundred thousand days
Verse 12
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When all people of the world
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are free
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And when children ask us,
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"What is free?"
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When old men must ask us,
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"What are slaves?"
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And when women ask us,
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"What are chains?"
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When
Verse 13
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the wild,
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wild goose is old and grey
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And the golden egg of freedom's lain
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That is when we all can truly say
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Then and only then
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Verse 14
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"Farewell to all the convict ways
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To being slaves without
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the name of slaves
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Farewell to all the convict ways
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And farewell to life in irons and chains"
Verse 15
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And farewell to life in irons and chains
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