Song of the Rebel Irish

A deleted scene featuring the "Song of the Rebel Irish", from the film "Gods and Generals". Lyrics are below.

And as a general note, I do not approve of cussing or the use of foul language and if any post contains anything of that sort, I will delete it. I don't have any problem with discussion over this video, but keep it clean and dignified.

I have ancestors who fought on both sides of the war and I have Irish, French, English, Native American, and African American blood. So please, I don't want to hear anything demeaning regarding race. Personally, I think the Civil War was a very sad time in America's history and I sympathize with both sides as well as those who were not Americans and yet fought in the war.


LYRICS:

Oh, not now for songs of a nation's wrongs,
not the groans of starving labor;
Let the rifle ring and the bullet sing
to the clash of the flashing sabre!
There are Irish ranks on the tented banks
of Columbia's guarded ocean;
And an iron clank from flank to flank
tells of armed men in motion.

The Irish green shall again be seen
as our Irish fathers bore it,
A burning wind from the South behind,
and the Yankee rout before it!
O'Neil's red hand shall purge the land-
Rain a fire on men and cattle,
Till the Lincoln snakes in their own cold lakes
Plunge from the blaze of battle.

Whoe'er shall march by triumphal arch
Whoe'er may swell the slaughter,
Our drums shall roll from the Capitol
O'er Potomac's fateful water!
Rise, bleeding ghosts, to the Lord of Hosts
For judgement final and solemn;
Your fanatic horde to the edge if the sword
Is doomed line, square, and column!

(full lyrics can be found here http://forum.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=messageboard.viewThread&ent...)

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[sarame287]

@zachewoldt I'm not for either side in particular. As mentioned, I have ancestors that fought on both sides. I may have a little more Southern pride (I live in Texas, my dad is from there and my mom from Virginia)...but I can empathize with both sides.

[HeroOfMacedonia]

Wonderful song,wonderful voice.I love the Irish culture.A proud nation,a nation of fighters who love their country.Very simmilar to us Macedonians.Heres to you Irish Brothers!! Greetings from Macedonia!!

[easynowww]

@madmiguelh2o I agree. But many Irish had no choice but to fight in the Union Army and many Irish in the south which werent so many were fighting for their own freedom and way of life, and the south/confederates were mostly Scoth-Irish protestants mixed with English protestants( who came from the west of England i.e Cornwall Devon etc and thus were mostly Celts of England) so thats why southern mostly got united. North were English Anglo-Saxons/Normans, Germans protestants & Nordics.

[KrazyKommieKiller]

@zephyrboy96 Confederate. They lyrics of the song make it obvious. "And the Yankee route before it", "till the Lincoln snakes in their own cold lakes", and "Our drums shall roll in the capitol"

[KrazyKommieKiller]

@konnii1 Because the movie is around 4 hours long even with half the scenes cut out of it.

[74remove]

im part irish and i mostly listen to irish music

[13bobmd]

@Rabmunn

Your points are correct but you have gave them in a very negative way.

The irish famine was not a famine but a refusal by the absentee land lords and the catholic church to supply food for people.

The unitied Irishmen uprising was destroyed by the Catholic church being bribed by the British government with a seminary.

The famine was advanced by the Catholic church by its inability to allow to use its land for the growth of produce.

1 in 4 irish catholics was a priest, i rest my case.

[DarthKieduss43]

They should never have deleted this. As an Irish American, I love this song.

[Solarlad]

@Rabmunn Nah your wrong..Catholics are true Irish-Celts. The scots are mostly saxons and normans and stole Northern Ireland land, but Northern Irish/Celtics/Catholics are getting it back now and rightly so.

[konnii1]

why did get it deleted

[avemaria716]

That was great!

[madmiguelh2o]

I'm an American with some Irish roots. Gotta say it pains me to think any paddies would be stupid enough to fight and die for wealthy men of mostly British ancestry to enslave other human beings for agricultural profit. Then again look at the wars we are in today.