A Soldiers Song (Irish National Anthem English Version)
English
[Verse 1]
We'll sing a song, a soldier's song,
With cheering rousing chorus,
As round our blazing fires we throng,
The starry heavens o'er us;
Impatient for the coming fight,
And as we wait the morning's light,
Here in the silence of the night,
We'll chant a soldier's song.
[Chorus]
Soldiers are we
Whose lives are pledged to Ireland;
Some have come
From a land beyond the wave.
Sworn to be free,
No more our ancients Ireland
Shall shelter the despot or the slave.
Tonight we man the Bearna Baoil
In Erin's cause, come woe or weal
'Mid cannons roar and rifles peal,
We'll chant a soldier's song.
[Verse 2]
In valley green, on towering crag,
Our fathers fought before us,
And conquered 'neath the same old flag
That's proudly floating o'er us.
We're children of a fighting race,
That never yet has known disgrace,
And as we march, the foe to face,
We'll chant a soldier's song.
[Chorus]
[Verse 3]
Sons of the Gael, men of the Pale,
Our long watched day is breaking!
The serried ranks of Inisfáil,
Shall set the tyrant quaking!
Our campfires now are burning low,
See in the East a silv'ry glow,
Out yonder waits the Saxon foe,
So chant a Soldier's Song!
Irish:
[Verse 1]
Seo dhíbh, a chairde, duan í“gláigh
Caithréimeach bríomhar ceolmhar
ír dtinte cnámh go buacach táid
'S an spéir go mí réaltógach
Is fonnmhar faobhrach sinn chun gleo
'S go tiíºnmhar glé roimh thíocht don ló
Fé chiíºnas chaomh na hoíche ar seol
Seo libh, canaídh Amhrá na bhFiann
[Chorus]
Sinne Fianna Fáil,
atá faoi gheall ag í‰irinn,
Buíon dár slua
thar toinn do ráinig chughainn,
Faoi mhóid bheith saor
Seantír ár sinsear feasta,
Ní fhágfar faoin tíorá á faoin tráill.
Anocht a théam sa bhearna baoil,
Le gean ar Ghaeil, chun báis ó saoil,
Le gunna scréach faoi lámhach na bpiléar,
Seo libh canaídh amhrá na bhfiann
[Verse 2]
Cois bánta réidhe, ar ardaibh sléibhe
Ba bhuadhach ár sinsir romhainn
Ag lámhach go tréan fé sárbhrat séin
'Tá thuas sa ghaoth go seolta
Ba dhíºchas riamh dár gcine cháidh
Gan iompáil siar ó imirt áir
'S ag siíºl mar iad i gcoinne ámhad
Seo libh, canaídh Amhrá na bhFiann
[Chorus]
[Verse 3]
A bhuíon nach fann d'fhuil Ghaeil is Gall
Sin breacadh lae na saoirse
Tá sceimhle 's scanradh i gcroíthe ámhad
Roimh ranna laochra ár dtíre
ír dtinte is tréith gan spréach anois
Sin luisne ghlé sa spéir anoir
'S an bíobha i raon na bpiléar agaibh
Seo libh, canaídh Amhrá na bhFiann
[Chorus]