James Daly Videos : Connaught Ranger {Lay Him Away O'er The Hillside} Folkstones

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Connaught Ranger {Lay Him Away O'er The Hillside} Folkstones

Folkstones singing Connaught Ranger {Lay Him Away O'er The Hillside}. Pivate James Joseph Daly 7144396 1st Bn., Connaugh Rangers. Daly faced the firing squad in Dagshai prison on November 2, 1920,he was aged 20. His remains were taken back to Ireland, in 1970. He was from Tyrrelspass, Co. Westmeath. The grey dawn had crept o'er the stillness of the mountain The dewdrops they glistened like diamonds on high The note of the bugle had sounded the warning A young Irish soldier was sentence to die. Chorus Lay him away o'er the hillside Along with the brave and the bold Inscribe his name on the roll of fame In letters of purest gold "My conscience would never convict me" He said with his last dying breath "May God bless the true cause of freedom? For which I am sentenced to death". Around that old barracks square that marched the young soldier The bandage he tore from his eyes with distain Do you think am afraid of crying sudden hero I die for old Ireland again and again. Chorus Lay him away o'er the hillside Along with the brave and the bold Inscribe his name on the roll of fame In letters of purest gold "My conscience would never convict me" He said with his last dying breath "May God bless the true cause of freedom? For which I am sentenced to death". I blame not you soldiers for doing me your duty "ame straight at my heart" where the last words he said exposing his breast to the points of the rife As the smoke cleared away the young soldier lay dead. Chorus Lay him away o ...

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