Protestant Men

It was back in history's page, the story's told

of a Napper Tandy brave and bold

With his scarlet and green, he then was seen

with his big long gun and his fighting men

And they beat at the drum, they fired their gun

and they shook the English establishment

And the Lords and the Peers they then put fears

and Grattan got his Parliament

So here's to those great Protestant Men

Who gave their lives to free our land

All the people sang their praises then

For those brave United Irishmen

In Belfast town there lived a man

and his name was Samuel Neilson

A minister's son, Presbyterian,

and the paper called The Northern Star

There was Henry Joy, the Green Volunteers

and Thomas Russell and McCabe and McTeir

And to them was known a man Wolfe Tone

and they formed the first United Men

So here's to those great Protestant Men

Who gave their lives to free our land

All the people sang their praises then

For those brave United Irishmen

So you sow your laws with dragons teeth and soon you'll

see

that you've sowed the seeds of bigotry

Be England's fool divide they'll rule

so they set to break the United Men

And they killed them in the fields

and some in jail and some upon the gallows high

When Willie Orr died his very last cry was

"Unite and fight brave Irishmen"

So here's to those great Protestant Men

Who gave their lives to free our land

All the people sang their praises then

For those brave United Irishmen

Cast dissensions to the wind

let all men lend to the common name of an Irishman

For across historys page to rant and rage

men crossed the pails of bigotry

There was the men of '98 no sadder fate,

Lord Edward, Tone and the brothers Sheres

It was Emmet's plea in 18 and 3

when he tried to set our country free

So here's to those great Protestant Men

Who gave their lives to free our land

All the people sang their praises then

For those brave United Irishmen.