Luke Kelly - The Foggy Dew

Luke Singing The Foggy Dew {1966}for German television called "Irland - Lieder für Träumer, Musik für Rebellen" which translates to "Ireland - Songs for dreamers, music for rebels".
The Foggy Dew was written by Canon Charles O`Neill in 1919.

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 fife did hum nor battle drum did sound it's dread tatoo
But the Angelus bell o'er the Liffey swell rang out in the foggy dew

Right proudly high over Dublin Town they hung out the flag of war
'Twas better to die 'neath an Irish sky than at Sulva 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


But the bravest fell, and the requiem bell rang mournfully and clear
For those who died that Eastertide in the springing of the year
And the world did gaze, in deep amaze, at those fearless men, but few
Who bore the fight that freedom's light might shine through the foggy dew

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[SpainEire]

Would be proud to be Irish but I'm Spanish, so even... Éire go Brách!!!!

[slapshot37GNR]

I'm an American but my Dad was born in Galway. He asked me to pull up some Luke Kelly songs. We were only going to listen to 2 or 3. We ended up watching 19 Dubliners videos, 5 Wolfe Tones, and 7 Pogues. Great Old Night in Chicago...

[scientific1982]

@craigpsimpson You'd be surprised. Most Irish people have english family members.

[dellboy177]

@SpainEire What a legendary comment haha ;)

[footballelmaestro123]

@sgtcrab1

i was born in sunderland too........... where are you now??

[sgtcrab1]

@SingingTimberwolf I was born in Sunderland. My Mom a war bride. My Dad a Canadian Highlander soldier. D Day etc. Makes me I guess a product of the wartime rubber shortage I suppose/. LOL!

[LadyShellawo432]

so miau wer will camen

[AcinomPP75]

@mentioko Easy mistake to make, but @SpainEire was referring to the Spanish region of Galicia not Galicia/Galizia in Eastern Europe. Spanish Galicia does indeed have Celtic connections.

[NotoTruth]

i cant find this song in the states...(except for youtube)...bullshight!

[mentioko]

@acerb45666555 thats a lie, cause the galiocians of today are less aeuropeans that a muslim. came here and see it. and in the past theres no vestige of celtic presence until the II century bc, theres only assumptions. if you dnt believe me go to see Estrabon, Schulten, etc... the ancient galicians were the oestrimnians