Sinead O’Connor & the Chieftains- The Foggy Dew

As down the glen one Easter morn To a city fair rode I, Their armed lines of marching men In squadrons passed me by. No pipe did hum, no battle drum Did sound its loud tattoo But the Angelus’ bells o’er the Liffey swells Rang out in the foggy dew. Right proudly high in Dublin town Hung they out a flag of war. ’Twas better to die ’neath an Irish sky Than at Suvla or Sud el Bar. And from the plains of Royal Meath Strong men came hurrying through; While Brittania’s Huns with their long-range gu