As we gather in the chapel here in Old Kilmainham Jail
I think about these past few days, oh will they say we've failed
From our schooldays they have told us we must yearn for liberty
Yet all I want in this dark place is to have you here wlth me
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Oh Grace just hold me in your arms and let this moment
this moment linger they'll take me out at dawn and I will die
With all my love I place this wedding ring upon your finger
There won't be time to share our love for we must say goodbye
Now I know it's hard for you my love to ever understand
the love I bear for these brave men, my love for this dear land
But when Padraig called me to his side down in the GPO
I had to leave my own sick bed, to him I had to go
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Now as the dawn is breaking, my heart is breaking too
On this May morn as I walk out my thoughts will be of you
And I'll write some words upon the wall so everyone wlll know
I love so much that I could see his blood upon the rose
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Time goes by and years roll onward
still in memory fresh I keep
of a night in Belfast prison
unashamed I saw men weep
As the time was fast approaching
a man lay sentenced for to die
and on the second of September
he goes to meet his God on high
Now he's marching towards scaffold
head erect he shows no fear
and while standing on that scaffold
Ireland cross he holds so dear
Now the cruel blow has fallen
for Ireland he has given all
He who in the flower of manhood
proudly answered to her call
Brave Tom Williams we salute you
and we never shall forget
those who planned your brutal murder
we vow we'll make them all regret
So I say to Irish soldiers
if on Toms path you shall stray
just keep memory of that morn
when Ireland's cross was proudly borne
by a man who lies within a prison grave.
When you walk through the storm
Hold your head up high
And don't be afraid of the dark
At the end of a storm there's a golden sky
And the sweet silver song of a lark.
Walk on through the wind
Walk on through the rain
Though your dreams be tossed and blown
Walk on walk on with hope in your heart
And you'll never walk alone
You'll never walk alone...
Walk on walk on with hope in your heart
And you'll never walk alone
You'll never walk alone...