The Cassidys - Clare's Dragoons

Na Casaidigh or the Cassidys with the tune 'Clare's Draggoons'.

Lyrics:

When on Ramillie's bloody field,
The baffled French were forced to yield,
The victor Saxon backward reeled
Before the charge of Clare's Dragoons.
The Flags we conquered in that fray,
Look lone in Ypres' choir, they say,
We'll win thm company to-day,
Or bravely die like Clares Dragoons.

Chorus:
Viva la for Ireland's wrong!
Viva la, for Ireland's right!
Viva la in battle throng,
For a Spanish steed, and sabre bright!

The brave old Lord died near the fight,
But, for each drop he lost that night,
A Saxon cavalier shall bite
The dust before Lord Clare's Dragoons,
For never, when our saabres met,
Could we the Saxon soldiers get
To stand the shock of Clare's Dragoons.

Viva la, the New Brigade!
Viva la, the Old One too!
Viva la, the rose shall fade,
And the shamrock shine forever new!

Another Clare is here to leasd,
The worthy son of such a breed;
The French expect some famous deed,
When Clare leads on his bold Dragoons.
Our Colonel comes from Brians race,
His wounds are in his breast and face,
The bearna baoghail is still his place,
The foremost of his bold Dragoons.

Viva la, the New Brigade!
Viva la, the Old One too!
Viva la, the rose shall fade,
And the shamrock shine forever new!

Category:

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• eireann
• dublin
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[squirell1952]

one other thing - and don't forget it - but we, the people of the Anglo Celt Isles, can trace our ancestors back to the peasantry. Oh, don't mention that to a hooraw limey-cum-henry or a hooraw jock or a hooraw taff or a hooraw paddy, whatever you do. Even Betty Windsor's ancestors were common-as-muckers from Germany!! And Philip Mountbatten was born on a TABLE in Greece! Go on, read up on it.

JAN-1-2012.

[squirell1952]

To the best of my knowledge, there are no posh paddies living in ANY council estate in ANY part of Ireland, north or south. theones who got an educatioln got out and stayed out of those areas. they had to. so much for socialism. and catholicism. let the great unwashed breed like rabbits and fleas and you'll have plenty of factory fodder and army fodder. and dole fodder.

Southern irish socialism is very RIGHT WING, don't you think??? Reply, sil voo play!!

[squirell1952]

DEAR SIR OR MADAM: As you all know, if you wanted to apply for a job and you came from a council estate, your chances of getting the job were nil. And most of the council estates are called after heroes of our history. Sarsfield Square in Athlone is hardly the Foxrock part of Athone, is it? This is how to segregate people - we cannot use their colour so we use their address instead. APARTHEID, to be correct.

[sengrahammcgrath]

Excuse me while I fangirl over the Irish Brigade in the Service of France...is it bad that I still cry when I read about Patrick Sarsfield? Thank you so much for posting this song!

[mf863722]

Clare's Dragoons is the marching song of the 27 Infantry Battalion

[IrishHistory1952]

We learned this song (a quicker version) in Belfast in the 1960s at Primary School. We learned "national songs" but not "rebel songs" (a curious distinction).

The songs written in the 19th century are about building he nationalist and republican cause (hooray!) but kinda distort History a little (eg Clares "Dragoons" were actually an INFANTRY regt. ....Clares "Regiment". Likewise the "green" flag was not really known in those Jacobite days.

[jgreenhoff]

Last Verse:

Oh! Comrades! Think how Ireland pines,

Her exiled Lords, her rifled shrines,

Her dearest hope, the ordered lines,

And bursting charge of Clare's Dragoons,

Then fling your Green Flag to the sky,

Let "Limerick!" be your battle cry,

And charge, until the blood floats fetlock-high,

Around the track of Clare's Dragoons!

[jgreenhoff]

me too...i love this tune...is it usually played at a quicker tempo??

[astartes82]

I have been looking for this song for nigh on 12 years or so! Thank you thank you thank you!!!!