Intro
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[Verse]
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My name is John Riley,
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I'll have your ear only a while.
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I left my dear home in Ireland
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It was death, starvation or exile.
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And when I got to America,
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It was my duty to go,
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Enter the army and slog across Texas
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To join in the war against Mexico.
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And it was there in the pueblos and hillsides,
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That I saw the mistake I had made.
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Part of a conquering army
C#m G#m C#m - B A
With the morals of a bayonet blade.
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So in the midst of these poor, dying Catholics,
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Screaming children, the burning stench of it all,
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Myself and two hundred Irishmen
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Decided to rise to the call...
[Chorus]
A E - Esus2
From Dublin City, to San Diego
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We witnessed freedom denied
A E
So we formed the Saint Patrick Battalion
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And we fought on the Mexican side
[Verse]
E C#m - C#sus2
We marched 'neath the green flag of Saint Patrick
A E - Esus2
Emblazoned with "Erin Go Bragh"
A E - G#m
Bright with the harp and the shamrock
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And "Libertad para Mexicana"
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Just fifty years after Wolftone
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Five thousand miles away
E A
The Yanks called us a Legion of Strangers
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And they can talk as they may
But--
[Chorus]
A E - Esus2
From Dublin City, to San Diego
B C#m
We witnessed freedom denied
A E
So we formed the Saint Patrick Battalion
B C#m - C#sus2
And we fought on the Mexican side
[Verse]
E C#m - C#sus2
We fought them in Matamoros
A E - Esus2
While their volunteers were raping the nuns
A E - G#m
In Monterey and Cerro Gordo
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We fought on as Ireland's sons
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We were the red-headed fighters for freedom
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Amidst these brown-skinned women and men
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Side by side we fought against tyranny
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And I dare say we'd do it again
[Chorus]
A E - Esus2
From Dublin City, to San Diego
B C#m
We witnessed freedom denied
A E
So we formed the Saint Patrick Battalion
B C#m - C#sus2
And we fought on the Mexican side
[Instrumental Verse]
E C#m - C#sus2
A E - Esus2
A E - G#m
C#m G#m C#m - B A
A E - Esus2
A C#m
E A
B C#m
[Instrumental Chorus]
A E - Esus2
B C#m
A E
B C#m - C#sus2
[Verse]
E C#m - C#sus2
We fought them in five major battles
A E Esus2
Churobusco was the last
A E - G#m
Overwhelmed by the cannons from Boston
C#m G#m C#m - B A
We fell after each mortar blast
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Most of us died on that hillside
A C#m
In the service of the Mexican state
E A
So far from our occupied homeland
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We were heroes and victims of fate
[Chorus]
A E - Esus2
From Dublin City, to San Diego
B C#m
We witnessed freedom denied
A E
So we formed the Saint Patrick Battalion
B C#m - C#sus2
And we fought on the Mexican side
A E
We formed the Saint Patrick Battalion
B C#m
And we fought on the Mexican side
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