5-56667-7-665-44                                                                                  What′s the news, what's the news, O me bold Shelmalier
4-4555-55-44-4                                                                                  With your long barrel guns from the sea?
5-56667-7-654-33                                                                                Say, what wind from the south brings a messenger here
4-4555-55-44-4                                                                                   With this hymn of the dawn for the free?
66-6-5-6  7-7-66 7-66                                                                                Goodly news, goodly news do I bring youth of Forth
66-6-5-67-7-66                                                                                      Goodly news shall I hear Bargy man.
5-56667-7-665-44                                                                                    For the boys march at morn from the south to the north
4-456665-5-44                                                                                     Led by Kelly, the boy from Killane.