The song "The Patriot Game" is by the musical group Schooner Fare. Their music can be found at www.outergreen.com

THE PATRIOT GAME

Come all you young rebels and list while I sing,
For the love of one's country is a terrible thing.
It banishes fear with the speed of a flame,
And it makes us all part of The Patriot Game.

My name is O'Hanlon and I'm just gone sixteen,
My home is in Monohan, 'twas there I was weaned.
I learned all my life cruel England to blame,
And so I'm a part of The Patriot Game.

It's nearly two years now since I wanderd away,
With a local battalion of the bold I.R.A..
I'd read of our heroes and I wanted the same;
To play out my part in The Patriot Game.

I read how poor Conley was shot in the chair.
All his wounds from the battle, all bleeding and bare.
His fine body twisted, all battered and lame;
They soon made him a part of The Patriot Game.

This Ireland of ours has for long been half free;
Six counties are under John Bull's tyranny
And it's always the leaders who are mostly to blame
For shirkin' their part in The Patriot Game.

And now as I lie here, my body all holes,
I think of those traitors who bargained and sold.
I wish that my rifle had given the same
To the quislings who sold out The Patriot Game.

quisling - a person who undermines his own country from within