The Galtee Mountain Boy - Paddy Reilly

I joined the flying column in 1916

In Cork with Sean Moylan

Tipperary with Dan Breen

Arrested by freestaters and sentanced for to die

Farewell to Tipperary said the Galtee

Mountain Boy

We went across the vallys and ore the hill tops green

Where we met with Dinny Lacey, Sean Hogan and Dan Breen

Sean Moylan and his gallant men they kept

the flag flying high

Farewell to Tipperary said the GAltee mountain boy

We tracked the Dublin mountains we were

Rebels on the run

Though hunted night and morning we were

outlaws but free men

We tracked the Wicklow mountains as the

sun was shining high

Farewell to Tipperary said the Galtee mountain boy

I bid farewell to old Clonmel that I never more will see

and to the Galtee mountain that oft times

sheltered me

The men who fought for their liberty and

who died without a sigh

May their cause be ne’re forgotten said the

Galtee mountain boy