Edentubber Songtext
von Declan Hunt

You Irishmen both one and all
Wherever you may be
Come raise your voice in sorrow
And mourn along with me
The death of our five darling sons
Fills us with sad dismay
They died at Edentubber
On a drear November day

In ′56 as Ulster's sons
Waged war on England′s Queen
The call rang forth this island through
To all who love the green
The brave and true then left their homes
And challenged England's might
As they helped the heroes of the north
In that unequal fight


From Wexford came George Keegan
With a heart as true as steel
Along with brave young Powell
For to man the barn well
Young Craven came from Newry
And Paul Smith from Armagh town
For twelve long months they battled
With the forces of the Crown

And Michael Waters of County Louth
At the age of fifty-four
Was still as true as Roisin Dubh
As he was in days of yore
In his cottage by the border
He gave a friendly hand
To the freedom fighters on the run
With them he took his stand

On the eleventh of November
I am sorry to relate
Mike Waters and those brave young men
Met with a cruel fate
On their way to hit the foreign foe
As they left the cottage door
A landmine it exploded
And they're gone forevermore


In Newry there is sorrow
And in Armagh city grand
For two brave men who lost their lives
In the fight to free their land
And Louth and Wexford mourn too
The death of their gallant sons
Old Ireland′s lost five noble men
Who feared no British guns