Joe McCann

Joe McCann

Eamon O'Doherty

Come all of you fine people wherever you may be

I'll sing of a brave Belfast man

Who scorned Britain's might though they'd shoot him on

sight

And the shot down Joe McCann

In a Belfast bakery in the August of that year

When internment was imposed throughout the land

Six volunteers from Belfast held 60 soldiers at bay

And their leader was Joe McCann brave Joe McCann

He fought for the people in the markets where he lived

In defence of the rights of man

But the undercover crew told the soldiers what to do

They shot Joe McCann brave Jpe McCann

He had no gun so he started to run

To escape them as many's the time before

One bullet brought him down as he lay on the ground

They shot him ten times more

He fought and he died for the people of this land

The protestant and catholic working man

He caused the bosses fear and for this they paid him dear

When they murdered brave Joe McCann

When they murdered brave Joe McCann