Luke Kelly <br />The Foggy Dew. TV Deutschland 1966. <br />LIED FÜR TRÄÜMER MÜISK FÜR REBELLEN... <br /><br />'The Foggy Dew' was written by Canon Charles O`Neill in 1919. <br /><br />As down the glen one Easter morn to a city fair rode I <br />There Armed lines of marching men in squadrons passed me by <br />No fife did hum nor battle drum did sound it's dread tatoo <br />But the Angelus bell o'er the Liffey swell rang out in the foggy dew <br /><br />Right proudly high over Dublin Town they hung out the flag of war <br />'Twas better to die 'neath an Irish sky than at Sulva or Sud El Bar <br />And from the plains of Royal Meath strong men came hurrying through <br />While Britannia's Huns, with their long range guns sailed in through the foggy dew <br /><br />But the bravest fell, and the requiem bell rang mournfully and clear <br />For those who died that Eastertide in the springing of the year <br />And the world did gaze, in deep amaze, at those fearless men, but few <br />Who bore the fight that freedom's light might shine through the foggy dew...
