St Patrick Battalion David Rovics
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My
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name is John a
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left my dear home in C
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when I got to AC
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go,C
Enter the army and F
slog across TexasTo
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join in the war against a
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there in the pueblos and a
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midst of these poor, dying C
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self and two hundred F
IrishmenDe
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cided to rise to the a
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formed the Saint Patrick BaC
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fought on the Mexican a
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ormed the Saint Patrick BatC
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marched 'neath the green flag of Saint a
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blazoned with "Erin Go C
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shamrock e
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called us a Legion of F
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ormed the Saint Patrick BatC
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fought on the Mexican a
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fought them in Mataa
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volunteers were raping the C
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brown-skinned women and a
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side we fought against F
tyrannyAnd I
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dare say we'd do it aa
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ormed the Saint Patrick BatC
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busco was the C
last Csus2
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whelmed by the cannons from C
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fell after e
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Most of us
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died on that C
hillsideCsus2
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service of the Mexican a
stateSo
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far from our occupied F
homelandWe were
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heroes and victims of a
fateRef. From Dublin
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City, to SanC
Diego Csus2
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We witnessed freedom dea
niedSo we
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formed the Saint Patrick BaC
ttalionAnd we
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fought on the Mexican a
side Asus2
So we
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formed the Saint Patrick BaC
ttalionAnd we
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fought on the Mexican a
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