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
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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]
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From Dublin City, to San Diego
G Am
We witnessed freedom denied
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So we formed the Saint Patrick Battalion
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And we fought on the Mexican side
[Verse]
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We marched 'neath the green flag of Saint Patrick
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Emblazoned with "Erin Go Bragh"
F C - Em
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
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The Yanks called us a Legion of Strangers
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And they can talk as they may
But--
[Chorus]
F C - Csus2
From Dublin City, to San Diego
G Am
We witnessed freedom denied
F C
So we formed the Saint Patrick Battalion
G Am - Asus2
And we fought on the Mexican side
[Verse]
C Am - Asus2
We fought them in Matamoros
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While their volunteers were raping the nuns
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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]
F C - Csus2
From Dublin City, to San Diego
G Am
We witnessed freedom denied
F C
So we formed the Saint Patrick Battalion
G Am - Asus2
And we fought on the Mexican side
[Instrumental Verse]
C Am - Asus2
F C - Csus2
F C - Em
Am Em Am - G F
F C - Csus2
F Am
C F
G Am
[Instrumental Chorus]
F C - Csus2
G Am
F C
G Am - Asus2
[Verse]
C Am - Asus2
We fought them in five major battles
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Churobusco was the last
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Overwhelmed by the cannons from Boston
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We fell after each mortar blast
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Most of us died on that hillside
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In the service of the Mexican state
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So far from our occupied homeland
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We were heroes and victims of fate
[Chorus]
F C - Csus2
From Dublin City, to San Diego
G Am
We witnessed freedom denied
F C
So we formed the Saint Patrick Battalion
G Am - Asus2
And we fought on the Mexican side
F C
We formed the Saint Patrick Battalion
G Am
And we fought on the Mexican side
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