Verse:

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As we gather in the chapel here in old Kilmainham Jail

6   -6   -7 7     -6     6      4     5        5   5    -4   -4     5      -4       

I think about these past few weeks, oh will they say we've failed?

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From our school days they have told us we must yearn for liberty

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Yet all    I  want  in   this dark place is to have you here with me

Chorus:

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Oh Grace just hold me in your arms and let this moment linger

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They'll take me out at   dawn and I will die

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With all my love   I   place this wedding ring upon your finger

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There won't be time to share our love

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so we must say goodbye

Now I know it's hard for you my love to ever understand

My love I bare for these brave men, my love for this dear land

But when Pádraig called me to his side down in the GPO

I had to leave my own sick bed, to him I had to go

 Chorus

Now as the dawn is breaking, my heart is breaking too

On this May morn as I walk out, my thoughts will be with you

And I'll write some words upon the wall so everyone will know

I loved so much that I could see his blood upon the rose.

Chorus