Dan O'Neill Band — James Larkin (1913 Lockout) / Grace (Joseph Plunkett, 1916) lyrics

Lyrics

As we gather in the chapel here in old Kilmainham Jail
I think about these past few weeks, will they say we’ve failed?
From our school days, they have told us we must yearn for liberty,
Yet all I want in this dark place is to have you here with me.
Oh Grace just hold me in your arms and let this moment linger,
They’ll take me out at dawn and I will die,
With all my love I’ll place this wedding ring upon your finger,
There won’t be time to share our love, for we must say goodbye.
Now I know it’s hard for you my love to ever understand.
The love I bare for these brave men, my love for this dear land,
But when Padraic called me to his side down in the GPO,
I had to leave my own sick bed, to him I had to go
Oh, Grace just hold me in your arms and let this moment linger,
They’ll take me out at dawn and I will die,
With all my love I’ll place this wedding ring upon your finger,
There won’t be time to share our love, for we must say goodbye.
There won’t be time to share our love, for we must say goodbye.