The Foggy Dew
The Chieftains and Sinead O'Connor with a song that evokes the emotions surrounding the Easter Rising of 1916, the beginning of the end of centuries of foreign rule.
As down the glen one Easter morn to a city fair rode I
There 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 Bell o‘er the Liffey‘s 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 Britannia‘s Huns, with their long range guns sailed in through the foggy dew
Their bravest fell, and the Requiem bell rang mournfully and clear
For those who died that Eastertide in the springing of the year
While the world did gaze, with deep amaze, at those fearless men, but few
Who bore the fight that freedom‘s light might shine through the foggy dew
And back through the glen I rode again, my heart with grief was sore
For I parted then with valiant men whom I shall never see n‘more
But to and fro in my dreams I go and I kneel and pray for you
For slavery fled, o glorious dead, when you fell in the foggy dew