Intro
B Bsus2 B B Bsus2 B
[Verse]
B G#m - G#sus2
My name is John Riley,
E B - Bsus2
I'll have your ear only a while.
E B - D#m
I left my dear home in Ireland
G#m D#m G#m - F# E
It was death, starvation or exile.
E B - Bsus2
And when I got to America,
E G#m
It was my duty to go,
B E
Enter the army and slog across Texas
F# G#m - G#sus2 G#m F#
To join in the war against Mexico.
B G#m - G#sus2
And it was there in the pueblos and hillsides,
E B - Bsus2
That I saw the mistake I had made.
E B D#m
Part of a conquering army
G#m D#m G#m - F# E
With the morals of a bayonet blade.
E B - Bsus2
So in the midst of these poor, dying Catholics,
E G#m
Screaming children, the burning stench of it all,
B E
Myself and two hundred Irishmen
F# G#m
Decided to rise to the call...
[Chorus]
E B - Bsus2
From Dublin City, to San Diego
F# G#m
We witnessed freedom denied
E B
So we formed the Saint Patrick Battalion
F# G#m - G#sus2
And we fought on the Mexican side
[Verse]
B G#m - G#sus2
We marched 'neath the green flag of Saint Patrick
E B - Bsus2
Emblazoned with "Erin Go Bragh"
E B - D#m
Bright with the harp and the shamrock
G#m D#m G#m - F# E
And "Libertad para Mexicana"
E B - Bsus2
Just fifty years after Wolftone
E G#m
Five thousand miles away
B E
The Yanks called us a Legion of Strangers
F# G#m
And they can talk as they may
But--
[Chorus]
E B - Bsus2
From Dublin City, to San Diego
F# G#m
We witnessed freedom denied
E B
So we formed the Saint Patrick Battalion
F# G#m - G#sus2
And we fought on the Mexican side
[Verse]
B G#m - G#sus2
We fought them in Matamoros
E B - Bsus2
While their volunteers were raping the nuns
E B - D#m
In Monterey and Cerro Gordo
G#m D#m G#m - F# E
We fought on as Ireland's sons
E B - Bsus2
We were the red-headed fighters for freedom
E G#m
Amidst these brown-skinned women and men
B E
Side by side we fought against tyranny
F# G#m
And I dare say we'd do it again
[Chorus]
E B - Bsus2
From Dublin City, to San Diego
F# G#m
We witnessed freedom denied
E B
So we formed the Saint Patrick Battalion
F# G#m - G#sus2
And we fought on the Mexican side
[Instrumental Verse]
B G#m - G#sus2
E B - Bsus2
E B - D#m
G#m D#m G#m - F# E
E B - Bsus2
E G#m
B E
F# G#m
[Instrumental Chorus]
E B - Bsus2
F# G#m
E B
F# G#m - G#sus2
[Verse]
B G#m - G#sus2
We fought them in five major battles
E B Bsus2
Churobusco was the last
E B - D#m
Overwhelmed by the cannons from Boston
G#m D#m G#m - F# E
We fell after each mortar blast
E B - Bsus2
Most of us died on that hillside
E G#m
In the service of the Mexican state
B E
So far from our occupied homeland
F# G#m
We were heroes and victims of fate
[Chorus]
E B - Bsus2
From Dublin City, to San Diego
F# G#m
We witnessed freedom denied
E B
So we formed the Saint Patrick Battalion
F# G#m - G#sus2
And we fought on the Mexican side
E B
We formed the Saint Patrick Battalion
F# G#m
And we fought on the Mexican side
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