Blood Stained Bandage Lyrics And Chords - Irish Rebel

Irish Rebel song lyrics and guitar chords, and the guitar chords by Marc Fahrbach. music 6/8. Another tribute to those men who gave their lives for their country and paid the ultimate price. The names mentioned in the song are just a handful of the men and women who took part in the Easter rising of 1916. There's several songs written about some of the men named in this ballad including Joseph Plunkett whom the Grace Song is all about. One of the leaders James Connolly got a song written about him anonymously, just like many of our ballads were written. It's the more famous of the James Connolly song lyrics that are here. There were several ballads written about Patrick Pearse but none included his brother Willie until relatively recent when the same two brothers who wrote the ballad Grace decided to write My Last Farewell Song and they were Sean And Frank O'Meara.

A (G)cold May mornin’ was breaking
Over (Am)Dublin’s dreary town
Six(D)teen brave men have fallen
To the rifles of the (G)crown
Because they’d loved their country
And (Am)served it night and day
But be(D)fore they faced the rifles
This is what those boys did (G)say

Chorus

Take a(G)way the blood-stained bandage
From (Am)off an Irish brow
We (D)fought and bled for Ireland
And we will not shirk it (G)now
We have held her in her struggle,
In an (Am)answer to her call
And be(D)cause we sought to free her
We are placed against a (G)wall


Ned (G)Daly, Heuston, Colbert
Mac(Am)Donagh and MacBride
Mac(D)Dermott and the brothers Kent
With Clarke and Plunkett (G)died
Mick Mallin, Pat and Willie Pearse
O’(Am)Hanrahan and Ceannt
And the (D)last of all James Connolly
this message to them (G)sent
Chorus twice

Chords in the key of D.

​A (D)cold May mornin’ was breaking
Over (Em)Dublin’s dreary town
Six(A)teen brave men have fallen
To the rifles of the (D)crown
Because they’d loved their country
And (Em)served it night and day
But be(A)fore they faced the rifles
This is what those boys did (D)say

Chorus

Take a(D)way the blood-stained bandage
From (Em)off an Irish brow
We (A)fought and bled for Ireland
And we will not shirk it (D)now
We have held her in her struggle,
In an (Em)answer to her call
And be(A)cause we sought to free her
We are placed against a (D)wall


Ned (D)Daly, Heuston, Colbert
Mac(Em)Donagh and MacBride
Mac(A)Dermott and the brothers Kent
With Clarke and Plunkett (D)died
Mick Mallin, Pat and Willie Pearse
O’(Em)Hanrahan and Ceannt
And the (A)last of all James Connolly
this message to them (D)sent
Chorus twice

Sixteen brave men were executed for their part 
in the Easter uprising Dublin ireland 1916

Thomas Clarke 3 May 1916
Patrick Pearse 3 May 1916
Thomas MacDonagh 3 May 1916
Joseph Mary Plunkett 4 May 1916 
Edward Daly 4 May 1916 
Michael O'Hanrahan 4 May 1916 
William Pearse 4 May 1916 
John MacBride 5 May 1916 
Con Colbert 8 May 1916
Eamonn Ceannt 8 May 1916
Michael Mallin 8 May 1916
Sean Heuston 8 May 1916
thomas kent 9 May 1916
james Connolly 12 May 1916
Sean MacDermott 12 May 1916
Roger Casment 3 August 1916