Irish Songs With Easy Chords & Lyrics
Anne Devlin
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In | Dublin | town they | sing of a brave Wicklow | woman |
| G | C | G | Am7 | D7 |
Of her | troubles | and her | times in cruel Kil | mainham | Jail |
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All the | way from | Butterfield | Lane Anne | Devlin was her | name |
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A friend to | Robert Emmett she | served his | cause in | vain |
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Lo | lie | lo Liffey keep on | flowin' |
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And it's | lo | lie | lo | Anne your | legend's | growin' |
Not torture or the bribe could sway Anne Devlin's purpose
Three years of lonely hell in solitary shame
How proud Emmett met his fate on the scaffold of the tyrant
She saw her family passin' like poor lilies in the storm
Chorus
In 1851 Anne Devlin met her maker
But her story's with us still as a lesson for the wise
Not poverty or fear can kill the heart of freedom
Anne Devlin was a servant to the spirit of our land
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