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Song of the Dawn

Trad

LYRICS

CHORUS

Hurrah! the night is ended

We see the dawn's red glow

Oh shout it high, a brave man's cry

Seancha′lin nan gheal go deo


VERSE 1

The song I′ll sing is a song of home

A song of rushing dew

Of glade and glen, of ford and fen

Of lake and of mountain blue

Of the signs that stand over all the land

To tell of the long ago

Let our voices ring, this song I'll sing

Seancha′lin nan gheal go deo


CHORUS


VERSE 2

I sing of every wood and stream

Of tower and vale and town

Where brave men died, where brave men tried

To tear the red rag down

From Kerry brave to the winding way

Where Lagan′s waters flow

From Teer-Na-Ri to the winding Lee

Seancha'lin nan gheal go deo


CHORUS


VERSE 3

I raise a rand for the ones who've tread

The path to the dawning day

Who will pause no more till their native shore

Is free from the Saxon sway

Then from every hill and from every rill

The freedom cry shall go

From old and young, in the Gaelic tongue

Seancha′lin nan gheal go deo


CHORUS x 2

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Celtic, she shanty

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We acknowledge the Gadigal and Bidjigal people of the Eora nation, upon whose lands we gather and sing.
We acknowledge sovereignty was never ceded. This always was and always will be Aboriginal land.

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Numerous photos by Nick Ryden 

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