The Clancy Brothers - The Foggy Dew (Alternate Take) Lyrics

Lyrics The Foggy Dew (Alternate Take) - The Clancy Brothers



It was down the glen one Easter morn, to a city fair rode I
There Ireland's lines of marching men, in squadron passed me by
No pipes did hum or no battle drum did sound its dread tattoo
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
For, 'twas better to die 'neath an Irish sky than at Suvla or Sud El Bar
And from the plains of Royal Meath, strong men came hurrying through
While Brittania's sons with their long range guns, sailed in by the Foggy Dew
'Twas England bade our wild geese go that small nations might be free
But, their lonely graves are by Suvla's waves on the fringe of the grey North Sea
Oh, had they died by Pearse's side, or fought with Valera true
Their graves we'd keep where the Fenians sleep, 'neath the hills of the Foggy Dew
The bravest fell and the sullen bell rang mournfully and clear
For those who died that Easter tide in the springing of the year
And the world did gaze in deep amaze at those fearless men and true
Who bore the fight that freedom's light might shine through the Foggy Dew



Writer(s): Traditional, James Mcnally


The Clancy Brothers - The Diamond Collection
Album The Diamond Collection
date of release
06-03-2015

1 The Connemara Cradle Song
2 Johnny I Hardly Knew You
3 Bold Thady Quill
4 The Irish Rover
5 The 23rd of June
6 Paddy Doyle's Boots
7 Hornpipe (Live)
8 Cruiscin Lan
9 Roisin Dubh
10 Roddy McCorley
11 Kelly the Boy from Killanne
12 Rosin the Bow
13 My Johnny Lad
14 The Jug of Punch
15 The Work of the Weavers (Live)
16 Courting in the Kitchen
17 Johnny Mceldoo (Alternate Take)
18 Eileen Aroon
19 Whiskey, You're the Devil (Alternate Take)
20 Whack Fol the Diddle
21 The Little Beggarman
22 The Old Orange Flute
23 Tim Finnegan's Wake
24 The Barnyards of Delgaty (Live)
25 An Bhruinnlin Bheasach
26 God Bless England (Live)
27 Johnny, I Hardly Knew You (Alternative Version)
28 The Moonshiner (Alternate Take)
29 The Parting Glass
30 The Lowlands of Holland
31 The Bard of Armagh
32 I'll Tell My Ma
33 The Wild Colonial Boy
34 Brennan On the Moor
35 The Irish Rover (Alternate Take)
36 The Wind That Shakes the Barley
37 Amhran Dochais
38 The Maid of the Sweet Brown Knowe
39 Blow Ya Winds
40 The Real Old Mountain Dew
41 Maggie Pickens
42 Nell Flaherty's Drake
43 The Castle of Dromore
44 The Stuttering Lover
45 Rennan On the Moor
46 The Maid of Fife-E-O
47 The Croppy Boy
48 Will Ye Go, Lassie, Go
49 Druimin Donn Dilis
50 Young Roddy Mccorley
51 Jug of This
52 I Know Who Is Sick
53 Portlairge
54 Bold O Donahue
55 South Australia
56 Rothsea O
57 Hornpipe (My Love She's but a Lassie Yet)
58 The Foggy Dew
59 The Lark in the Morning
60 Whiskey, You're the Devil (Take 2)
61 O Donnell Aboo
62 The Rising of the Moon (Live)
63 The Minstrel Boy
64 The Barnyards of Delgaty
65 The Work of the Weavers
66 Boulavogue
67 The Lowlands of Holland (Alternate Take)
68 Ballinderry
69 Eamonn an Chnoic
70 As I Roved Out (Alternate Take)
71 Sean Dun Na Ngall
72 Singin' Bird
73 In the Month of January
74 Old Woman from Wexford
75 Haul Away Joe
76 The Little Beggerman (Alternate Take)
77 Mountain Dew
78 The Whistling Gypsy
79 The Foggy Dew (Alternate Take)
80 Finnigan's Wake
81 Mr Moses Ri-Tooral-I-Ay
82 The Whistling Thief
83 Port Lairge (Alternative Take)




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