IRA Volunteers Gervais McKerr, Eugene Toman and Sean Burns in song.
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00:00Burgantown
00:18Burgantown was rocked with sorrow
00:22On that bleak November's day
00:26Our stones and tears were mingled
00:30As great numbers stopped to pray
00:36For Sean Burns and Eugene Thomann
00:40And their driver, Jervis McCure
00:44Who had just been brutally murdered
00:48In an ambush well prepared
00:54Suspect of being Irishmen
00:58With no love for the crown
01:02Heedless of the age, oh cry
01:06You crappy boys, lie down
01:12They would not lick those British boots
01:16Of Ireland they were proud
01:20Though harassed and outlawed, beaten
01:24They just would not lie down
01:30And they dared to hold their heads up high
01:35And never once did fail
01:39To declare their wish for freedom
01:43Like true sons of the game
02:05They defied the hearts of evil men
02:10Who hungered for revenge
02:14And on that bleak November's day
02:18The three lads were well laid
02:24Stirred and slain by evil men
02:28The forces of the crown
02:32They had dared to flout the order
02:36Of you crappy boys, lie down
02:42And cheers were rolling by my friends
02:46Who still remember well
02:50We owe it to our children
02:54And we owe it to ourselves
03:00We owe it to these young men
03:04Who rallied one and all
03:08And be proud that we are Irish
03:12For they cannot kill us all
03:18And they dared to hold their heads up high
03:23And never once did fail
03:27To declare their wish for freedom
03:31Like true sons of the game
03:53I feel I am a soldier's grave
03:57In a churchyard near the town
04:01And if you ever pass this way
04:05Don't let your heads bow down
04:11And turn your heads up heavenwards
04:15And say a silent prayer
04:19For Sean Burns and Eugene Thomann
04:24And their driver, Jervis McCarth
04:54And their driver, Jervis McCarth
05:00I feel I am a soldier's grave
05:06In a churchyard near the town
05:10And if you ever pass this way
05:14Don't let your heads bow down
05:18And turn your heads up heavenwards
05:22And say a silent prayer
05:26Okay!
05:26AAAAAH!
05:27...