Song of the Celts
Song of the Celts is a patriotic song sung by several groups, notably the Wolfe Tones. Since the lyrics of the song discuss unity amongst Irish, Scottish, Welsh, Manx, Breton and Cornish ethnic groups, it may be regarded as an unofficial anthem of the Celtic people. Some sources [1] list the song as "traditional", however a version of the song has been attributed to A. P. Graves by author Miranda Seymour in her biography of his son, poet Robert Graves.[2]
LYRICS
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TRADITIONAL
There's a blossom that blows, that scoffs at the snow, and it faces root fast the rage of the blast, and it sweetens the sod, no slave ever trod, since mountains upreared their alter to God.
CHORUS: The flower of the free, the heather, the heather, the Bretons and the Scots and Irish together, the Manx and the Welsh and Cornish forever, six nations are we, all Celtic and free.
Theres a blossom thats red as the life's blood we shed, and for liberty's cause against alien laws, with lochial and O'Niell and Llewellyn drew steel, for Alba's and Erin's and Cambria's weal
CHORUS
Let the Saxon and Dane bear the rule o'er the plain, on the hem of God's robe is their scepter and globe, and the lord of all light, revealed in his height, for Heaven and Earth rose up in his sight.
CHORUS
References
- ↑ Archived January 1, 2011, at the Wayback Machine.
- ↑ Miranda Seymour, Robert Graves: Life on the Edge.