The Big Fellah

Album: Home of the Brave (1994)
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  • Mo chara is mo lao thu!
    (My friend and my calf)
    Is aisling trí néallaibh
    (A vision in dream)
    Do deineadh aréir dom
    (Was revealed to me last night)
    IgCorcaigh go déanach
    (In Cork, a late hour)
    Ar leaba im aonar
    (In my solitary bed)

    I remember you back in the GPO with Connolly and Clarke
    Laughin' with McDermott through the bullets and the sparks
    Always with the smart remark, your eyes blazin' and blue
    But when we needed confidence we always turned to you
    And when they shot our leaders up against Kilmainham wall
    You were there beside us in that awful Easter dawn
    Hey, big fellah..........where the hell are you now
    When we need you the most
    Hey, big fellah..........c'mon

    Tabhair dom do lámh
    (Give me your hand)

    Back on the streets of Dublin when we fought the black and tans
    You were there beside us, a towerin' mighty man
    And God help the informer or the hated English spy
    By Jaysus, Mick, you'd crucify them without the blinkin' of an eye
    Still you had a heart as soft as the early mornin' dew
    Every widow, whore and orphan could always turn to you
    We beat them in the cities and we whipped them in the streets
    And the world hailed Michael Collins, our commander and our chief
    And they sent you off to London to negotiate a deal
    And to gain us a republic, united, boys, and real
    But the women and the drink, Mick, they must have got to you
    'Cause you came back with a country divided up in two

    We had to turn against you, Mick, there was nothin' we could do
    'Cause we couldn't betray the republic like Arthur Griffith and you
    We fought against each other, two brothers steeped in blood
    But I never doubted that your heart was broken in the flood
    And though we had to shoot you down in golden Béal na Blath
    I always knew that Ireland lost her greatest son of all Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

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  • Richard Dominguez from Va (usa)Great song, heard for the first time on the show SOA
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