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The ghost of Kevin Barry still in memory lingers on
The brave lad who faced the hangman in that November dawn
A true Irish martyr facing death in his teenage years
While his supporters knelt in a last ditch despair and tears
Broken hearted sympathisers on the road outside Mountjoy
Not there to mourn a grown man just an eighteen year old boy
Was he driven on by madness or the desire to be free?
A brave step by an irish son in his search for liberty
A full time college student one day he missed some courses
Because he was a member of the secret armed forces
Pinned down beneath an idle lorry enemy blood was shed
And one more British soldier on a Dublin street lay dead
A twice jammed up old rifle laid ruin to his other plans
And he did not live long enough to fight the black and tans
Thinking of Eire's freedom full of young rebel ideas
Throw off the yoke of tyranny a perfect panaceas
They would hang him on the gallows a cruel illustration
Not realizing this would unite the entire nation
No more he'll walk in Dublin or go to Church in Westland Row
No more he'll walk family fields in Dumguin in Carlow
His brave deeds were emulated by nine more fearless young men
Buried in the jail side by side known as The Forgotten Ten
The bodies of those brave young men as well as that of Kevin
Were taken from that evil ground and now lie in Glasnevin
