Protestant Man Lyrics

It was back in history's page

The story's told

Of a Napper Tandy, brave and bold

With his scarlet and green, he then was seen

With his big long gun and his fighting men

And they beat at the drum

They fired their gun

And they shook the English establishment

And the Lords and the Peers

They then put fears

And Grattan got his Parliament

So here's to those great protestant men

Who gave their lives to free our land

All the people sang their praises then

For the brave United Irishmen

In Belfast town there lived a man

And his name was Samuel Neilson

A minister's son, Presbyterian

Had a paper called the Northern Star

There was Henry Joy, the Green Volunteers

And Thomas Russell and McCabe and McTeir

And to them was known a man Wolfe Tone

And they formed the first United Men

So here's to those great protestant men

Who gave their lives to free our land

All the people sang their praises then

For the brave United Irishmen

Sow your laws with dragons teeth

And then you'll see

That you've sowed the seeds of bigotry

Be England's fool, divide they'll rule

So they set to break the United Men

And they killed them in the

Fields and some in jail

And some upon the gallows high

When Willie Orr died his very last cry

Was "Unite and fight, brave Irishmen"

So here's to those great protestant men

Who gave their lives to free our land

All the people sang their praises then

For the brave United Irishmen

Cast dissensions to the wind

Let all men lend

To the common name of an Irishman

For across history's page to rant and rage

Men crossed the pails of bigotry

There was the men of '98 no sadder fate

Lord Edward, Tone and the brothers Sheares

It was Emmet's plea in 18 and 3

When he tried to set our country free

So here's to those great protestant men

Who gave their lives to free our land

All the people sang their praises then

For the brave United Irishmen